Apart From Worldly Things

Pleiades

What is a year?
Merely a wisp of smoke,
the single beat of a moth's wing,
from where the stars converge on infinity.

Eons before the earth burst forth in fruit and frond,
they wheeled above
like colossal motes of dust in a shaft of moonlight,
calling forth the spark of life from nothingness.

Now, in that blink of time
that begins the turn of the seasons,
they shine—
a churning brew of startling beauty
that takes the breath away—
captured in awed astonishment
by eternity.

[Pleiades is a star cluster, within the Taurus constellation, which is usually easily observable to the naked eye, especially in the Northern Hemisphere in the winter months. Please vote & comment!]