In the vastness

In the vastness of emptiness and darkness
I reached out

With my hand, though minuscule and corporeal as it was

I reached toward the distance

The distance, the depth of the universe

I wanted to grasp

And clasp the tumbling of atoms

As they woke

When they first woke, so long ago

When I dreamt

And saw them career in the infinity of existence

And I talked to them

My longing for nebulas and galaxies

Has made me remember

That I came, far-flung, from far away from a star

From a star, a star, my mother, my mother-sun

– M.M.