Twinkle, twinkle, little star. From a trillion miles afar - Your rays penetrate the night And avail of your delight. Through the curvatures in space Where the moments are erased You forge onward in your course To the sun and to the earth, Both a photon and a wave - Both a master and a slave - Matter, energy and speed - Both fulfilment and the need - Self and space-disturbing force Charting journey from its source. Twinkle, twinkle, little star Shimmer as you fling ajar Door between the mind and heart - Tear the manacles apart - Make it shatter; make it bleed - Water flowers; cull the weed; Burn outside and burn within Till the mind begins to spin And avails of Northern Pole To attain into the soul - There to manifest as light And achieve unending might That can burn, and warm, and heal - Universal truth reveal - And allow it to break free Like volcano in the sea, There to reach into the clouds And to exorcise the doubts Of what's lovely - of what's good - And what, if it only could - If it only had the force - Would make paradise of Earth. Twinkle, twinkle, little soul, Be my journey, be my goal, Be my transcendental truth And don't fall into misuse But remain, all woes despite, To give solace, courage, might - To inspire the ones beneath And direct them into bliss: Burn and shine, and from my mind Wipe false thoughts that make me blind And replace myopic eyes With the true, the good, the wise. And as you reach in my bone, Make it shatter like a stone, Tear it, shake it, mold it, burn From the sundown till the morn. In the sky and in the eye In the place where shadows fly Disincarnate, free at last - Free from future, free from past - And existing anyhow Living in eternal now: Through the evening, through the dark, Like a condor, like a shark, Like a laughter, like a tear - Through the moody atmosphere - Little star! Twinkle and shine! Burn me, scorn me, and be mine! https://sites.google.com/site/ibshambatpoetry