Cosmic (Wo) Man

Cosmic (Wo) man will forever be a neotenous child [1] Grains of matter coalesce in Her sprawled-out limbs And beings appear in the developing bath of Her eyes SHE is over-exposed in the daybreak of awareness Painfully illumining Her own inner darkness Arduously setting forth to span Her empty gulfs Her lot is to be the light-bringer... To endure intense glare: BEARER OF LIGHT! Veiled by layer on layer of nebular mist Dust in her physique advances toward dawn It's time to learn from the birds in Her body So we can use new kinds of wings to take flight It's time we learned from the plants in Her body To use new kinds of branches for gathering light Cosmic (Wo) man finds purpose in giving life But homo sapiens, having befouled it's nest Only glimpses Her extended body in flickers Such is the natural condition of a cosmic babe Perhaps the interwovenness of matter's laws Is a tale told by Her endless striving Perhaps She has inner vistas of becoming And has to trigger countless subtle events To support the material world at any moment The life-enabling wavelengths of Sol's light Are rays in the bodily aura of Cosmic Man [2] Note: [1] "Neotenous" means that characteristics of infancy are prolonged into adolescence and even into adulthood. [2] When wavelengths of sunlight are drawn on a graph, we see a sharp peak in the area of visible light, with lower levels of ultra-violet and infra-red on either side. If the peak were shifted slightly toward the ultra-violet side, the earth would be irradiated by too many mutagenic rays; if the peak were shifted slightly toward infra-red, the earth's surface would be too hot for life. As it is, our Sun provides us with precisely the rainbow of light that we need.