A White Stone

Dark Matter. Dark Energy.

It’s an expansive darkness. 

When we look up at night 

at the space between the stars,

we see the universe as it mostly is.

Even the park at noon is mostly dark,
when we consider all the darkness 
beneath the grass and all the darkness
inside the tree trunks and all the darkness
inside our own bodies.

For dark is the gate
and dark is the way
that leadeth to darkness,
and many there be
which go in thereat.

Only a few bodies
will be transformed into stars.

Perhaps it will be your body-
Pray that it will be your body-
which will be among the few

to receive a white stone
whereby things pertaining
to a higher order of kingdoms
will be made known,
will be made bright,
will be made alright.