A Long Way From Home

Don’t be afraid when the sky falls, my child,
and Heaven rains down upon the good Earth
from faraway faces of gods and stars
to kill not man, but the nature of him.
Don’t run from the great cosmos in free fall,
but rather coil like a spring absorbs shock.
When the first star of fire falls with great light,
don’t lose faith in the face of broken bone,
for you are not glass, not stone, nor iron
like the rails that brought you here – you are love.