What is the truth of power? What can refute all lies? Look at a meteor shower In clear midnight skies. Between the fluffy clouds In Arizona sky - Between the fears and doubts - Between the "you" and "I" - Carrying time and matter From the galactic heights, Into the skies they scatter And sanctify the night. Meteors, stone and metal, Burning up in their flight - Look at their skill and mettle! Look, and gain second sight! Look at the sparks in heaven! Look, and see with your eyes - Six, seven, eight, eleven - Look, and be mesmerized! Hailing from worlds unknown - Rich with the universe - Ice, fire, earth and stone - Passion and speed and force! Look at the truth they carry - That they wish to impart - See how they wish to marry Earth with galactic heart! Meteors, bits of planets - Parcels of cosmic dust - Iron and gold and granite From an uncharted past - Here they come into present And bring inside their core Pieces of the Incessant Into Forevermore. How do I rise to meet you Before you burn in flight? How can the human greet you And understand your plight? How can the stars and atoms, Each one its own world, Be in their essence fathomed And in their truth unfurled? Sun lights us, and we heed him - Sun is the source of light - But how much greater wisdom Comes from eternal night? Measure them, know them, see them - Numerous like the sand - Capture what they conceive and Try, try to understand Everything that they know All that they have within - Know them as they bestow Their sainthood and their sin. Meteors, flying toward us, From the unknown worlds - Messages that night forwards And with its chill enfolds - Mysteries wrapped in darkness - Catch them before they burn - From the unfathomed, chartless, Space, they to us return. And with your head in clouds - Or on a satellite - Meet them; yes, meet the crowds Of meteors in the night - Look at them as you tower And fathom as they fly The reverse meteor shower: Souls reaching for the sky.