Evening Prayer

I will hang my hopes on the stars
Suspended in the black blanket of night,
For in those distant lights
I feel the Infinity that is waiting for us.

I stood still in the temperate evening
Feeling my heart beat in time
With the spinning of the earth
Beneath the darkened Heaven.

(In this moment, I felt Forever.)

We are two pinpricks
In this vast and immeasurable existence,
Shining separately and now burning brighter,
Having been brought together.

But we are not alone.
We are surrounded by lights,
Laid in a grand scheme of unending sky,
Answering hopes with our infinitesimal Infinity.

And Then

And then, sometimes, life takes you by surprise and the things you hoped for work out even better than you had dared to imagine.