Terra

Blue-green ball of rock and water,
Cycles with kin a blazing light,
In milky spiral, in endless night,
Elliptical terrestrial totter.

Why this sphere of sundry elements,
In conjunction with love and war,
Both with devils and angels soars,
To threshold a moral firmament?

Mars tracks Terra, one orbit afar,
As Venus enchants in siren sway,
Crusty mantle, where billions stray,
Unawares how small is their star.

Alike to stars, so souls are born,
Nebula or womb encloses spark,
A fetus forms, starlings break dark,
And soon to shine and bring the morn.

Blue-green ball, theater of life,
Nestled among the sands of stars,
Through pages of endless calendars,
In boundless love and joy and strife.