Galactic Girl Poem by Liilia Talts Morrison

Distant comet whirl cotillions
Float beyond white milk strewn millions
While in interstellar billows
Rise new stars from spinning willows.

You were born of brilliant showers
Past the reach of piercing light years
Boiling bowels of creation
Asteroids and souls conception
Formed a girl of rare perception.

You were meant to cut through darkness
Though the cut would bleed your turning
Coursing through a dark red yearning
Offered love to mortal burning.

As the universe expanded
A small planet was upended
Secret cipher of the Maker
No one guessed till it was ended.

Nebulas of rare excitement
Paled and bowed at tiny pulses
Matchless in their faultless function
Though they fell to final unction.

Not a creature knew the difference
Neither grasped the axis reference
Who or what it was that deemed
That blue planet was supreme.

Horse head nebulas soon neighed
At that sparkling globe the focus
Of grace some called hocus-pocus
While they honored stellar dust
As truth crumbled into rust.

No one noticed one small female
Nor did she reveal her birthright
Only those whose songs broke fetters
Could respond as she loosed shackles
Unsung Atlas liberated
While the wise tracked far off places.

You were born of brilliant showers
Past the reach of piercing light years
Boiling bowels of creation
Asteroids and souls conception
Formed a girl of rare perception.