50 years of good livin’

50 itinerant circles
   in a row define a
   life thus
far

like the blind circlings of a
   planet around a star,
   like a bewildered star
   wandering through a
   galaxy,
   like a galaxy lost in the
   gracious
void.

by the miraculous benevolence of
   the infinite, i am your
friend

between us/within us there is a
   light, more clear &
   bright & more beginningless
   than
time.