Taking Shape: Skies over Blue Spruce

NASA image V380 Orionis within

Reflection Nebula NGC 1999

He said who are you today?

And she answered:

I am Tevye!

I am Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof--

who has lost a sister

and rails at God

for taking her

and causing her 

to suffer;

So let me rant, 

I say!

What do you take me for,

a fool?

 I am not a fool;

I see all the suffering

as if my eyes were Yours;

but after my 

stream of words I kneel

by a blue spruce

like the ones 

in her yard 

overlooking the lake, 

You see,

Both she and the trees

grew together,

but now there's 

just the trees

And she is a star--

and my rant

turned to tears

and my breath 

breathed in

the awe

in the night.