In early April, 2000, my dear friend Dona sent this poem to me. I cannot tell you how many times I have read it and found it to be a very soothing poem. Now I want to share it with my visitors, in the hope that they will enjoy it as much as I have. - poetheart 07/14/00
In an ebony sky, in the moon up high,
the cheshire cat shows his smile
And the stars twinkle merrily to the silent tune
of the universe all the while
As the earth, on its axis, twirls in the night,
half in the dark, half in the light
Of the angry sun burning hot and bright,
bringing life and color to our sight
Then a wind of change blows across the sky,
sending hope to a weary world
Breathing out with a sigh, as the old ones die
and the new ones learn how to cry
Mankind born anew, and his sorrow, too,
life goes on for the many and the few
They laugh, they love, they see the stars above,
and the moon grows full again
And comes round the earth, watches death and birth,
watching all with an ironic mirth
From a lofty height, hanging there in the night
above every sorrow and each delight
And it sees man's sins, and his sorrows, too,
and it laughs at me and it laughs at you
For we are but dust in the earth, I trust,
blown about by winds of doubt, and just
A shadow of what we'll know, someday, when the Maker,
Prime Mover, Master Shaker
Is finished with His Master Plan, and
when He finishes Man, makes him understand
How it came about, through the fear and doubt,
that it had a goal at the end
That we breathed and sighed and laughed and loved
and lived and died not in vain
But till then, till then, all the race of men
looks to heaven, sees the stars in the night again
While in an ebony sky, the moon up high,
shows its soft, silent cheshire-cat smile
And the stars still dance with the placid moon,
to the silent tune of the universe,
As the earth on its axis twirls in the night,
still half in the dark, yet half in the light
And the angry sun burning hot and bright,
brings life and color to our sight.by Dona Lou Pearson