How the Stars Tell Time
by Astara
The telescope of my mind
explores elliptical orbits
spiraling their dance around the sun, our star.
Somewhere, beyond my eyeline,
or even my imagination,
different planets orbit another star.
Far far away the stars wink.
My senses try to measure just how far,
far far away is.
The speed of their light,
lit billions of years
before my gaze locks in.
Yet the magnet of my heart
that surfs electric currents,
crosses the distance in a flash.
Within the unreasonable effectiveness of my senses,
and the logic of mathematical equations
aiming to grasp the breath of existence,
lie the rods, cones, light receptor cells,
telescopes, planetariums, wires, satellites,
codes, and hungry algorithms.
Beyond all our constructions,
or rather within them,
lies an electric truth:
field-aligned currents
carry love instantly
between me, any star, or planet.
Electromagnetic space currents send messages
between me and me
dancing in different timelines.
The stars wink enthusiastically.
Their Morse-code twinkle
confirming my limited sight.
I wink back at the sky knowingly,
sending the spark of my
response in an instant.
What is time? I whisper.
The stars answer,
Time is a gate.
Past and future,
abrupt and fluid,
slow and swift,
linear and non-linear,
binary and non-binary,
exist all at once.
Constrained and limitless,
one-dimensional and multidimensional,
time is shaped from where you stand.
Where is the gate? I whisper.
The stars shimmer and whisper back,
The gate is your heart.
