“I don’t know how you
carry
an ancient knowing
or why you smell like dense stars
and church.
Everything is human nature
yet you are supernovas
piercing night’s heart
with your wounds of light.
 
I don’t know when you
learned
to dance with God
or why you paused to witness me.
Everything is eventual pain
yet you are time suspended
and blessings
constellating.
 
I don’t know why it had to be so
or why it couldn’t be anything else.
Every thing is an unbearable burden
yet here you are
—my universe’s
Amen.”