Birds Eye View

Looking down through misty spheres To visit wondrous lands Hewn through time, through endless years, Green fields and golden sands With glist`ning spreads of sapphire blue Unfolding `neath my gaze Then lofty heights of sombre hue Ascend through misty haze Beneath the soft and feathered clouds Rise peaks of emerald green All topped above with twisting shrouds Of mist, their tips unseen And golden plains reach wide and long Which sparkle in the sun To then be licked by silv`ry tongues With threads of silk unspun Then hov`ring over range and heath Where roaming creatures dwell As veils of purple stretch beneath Enrobing dale and fell (And yearning, hopeless, specks of dust Behind confining walls Beset with envy, greed and lust Chase dreams in concrete halls) To fly where beams of gleaming light On icy rises play Where fields of pure and dazzling white Meet deeps of steely grey And here green curtains hang above The apex of the world Dancing as two wrapped in love With glorious beauty swirled Then soaring high, beyond, to go Above all, looking down At this `blue marble` set below In her black velvet gown