Divinations of the First Light:
A Cosmic Poem for the Vera Rubin Observatory

by Maria Popova

we are
the matter of tomorrow
pulsating in today
children of a million explosions
alone together
in the swarm of change
each a system of mysteries
built to focus
the golden nebula of now
in the vast dark sky of never
our mission
to make our passing light
known to each other
comets of the possible
made from the dust of time