The Morning Star

(Thursday, 7-28-2011, approximately 5:45 A.M.)

I was out for a leisurely stroll
As the quiet dawn watches over the streets
And the night light turns a misty gray hue
Over this grand City that never sleeps
When
Lo!
And behold!
I looked up afar
And I saw
For the very first time
The Morning Star!
A majestic and stately phenomenal out of the blue
Perched over New York City’s skyline
Near 36th and 9th Avenue.

The Morning Star appears in the east
Around the time of daybreak.
Appearing as the darkness passes
As the light bringer
To linger only ‘til the sun appears
To the masses.
Shone forth to preach the gospel in the sky
Seated on heavenly high
Like a still soft voice beckoning
A reckoning
To the minions below –
Take notice!
Look,
And see
What comes to be.
Thus doth the light say…
This the dawning of a new day
As the old is passing away.
Look,
Out upon the celestial horizon!
New beginnings are rising.
Weeping may endure for a night,
Or two,
But the light comes sure as the morning dew.

This same light is also the Evening Star
Appearing in the west after the sun-rest
At twilight
But never during the darkness of midnight
The Evening Star never rises high in the sky
As seen from earth’s sky-light.
But there is no object, after the moon, seen so bright.

It Is the name given to the planet
Venus.

So named for the goddess of love, beauty, productivity
And femininity.
Some cultures refer to the planet as the metal star
Based on the five elements –
Wood, fire, earth, metal, water
And believed by some, the governing deity of earth is from Venus
Presiding over the mortal.
Venus orbits between the earth and the sun.
As the Morning and the Evening Star being one.
The greatest luminosity of this brightest star transpires
When it is near the earth
As the forerunner to the advent of birth
Or to be as a herald to announce the coming of the day to rise
That the light is coming clearer;
Revelation,
With illumination and clarification
Is
Drawing
Nearer.

This is my coming of age tale
During an early morning walk in Summer.
Seeing through the lens of the overcomer.

All hail!!!

To the Chief!

(Thanks to James Lee for walking with me)