Claim

by Joan Mistretta

Pregnant darkness, no beginning,
life exploding, planets spinning,
trails of matter, comets streaming:
We are stardust.

Generation, power humming,
Now expanding, time becoming,
sentient firestorms, atoms screaming
We are stardust.

All forgotten, birth to dying,
spellbound consciousness denying
origins recalled in dreaming:
Stardust.