Devotional Poetry

Divine Plan

Divine Plan

Atoms of novas disperse
across the interstellar medium
merge with clouds of gas and dust.

Nebula--
in which stars condense and planets grow--
gave birth to systems
prepared to nurture sentient life:
bodies that house nascent souls.

What creatures are these
that risen from the primal ooze
stand awestruck at the sight
of multicolored twinkling lights
spread across the firmament?

Neither gods nor beast,
but having attributes of both
at death their bodies will return to atoms of the dust,
while their souls ascend into the Worlds of God.

Poet's Note: ▶︎

I'm not precisely sure when this poem was written. Probably around or after 160 B.E.