Antoine de Saint Exupéry

“I wonder’ he said ‘whether the stars are set alight in heaven so that one day each one of us may find his own again… Look at my planet. It is right there above us. How far away it is!”
“It is beautiful,” the snake said, “what has brought you here?”
“I have been having some trouble with a flower.”

FromThe Little Prince

Here, the open sky
The width of the universe
Comfortable in the rouged
Lips of flower petals

Here, simple and lovely truths
Lay tangled against the complexity
of words sticky with empire and privilege

Here, the dream of never coming down
Bursting through the cloud realms
Drifting the tide pools of heaven
Air and sea like blood and blood

Antoine de Saint Exupéry