Beyond the Clouds

Awakened by the light I flew Beyond the clouds into the blue Below a field, a cotton bed Grey and white, a jumbled spread The radiance in sunlight sky From up above, up very high Those resting on the ground can’t see The beauty of the cotton sea Billows flow in surging wind Reaching up to meet a friend Nothing stops them in the air They greet the sunshine maiden fair A silken city built of soft Who’s that holding it aloft? Always new, a changing sight Marshmallows meet to share the light Each one is of a different sort Some are tall and some are short Flattened like a table top Then round and lumpy like a drop Darkened bottoms, snow white heads In the evening orange and reds Still higher in the sky I flew Beyond the clouds, beyond the blue Out where the stars are smiling down Beyond the Sun, far past the sound Readied and equipped to see Both heaven and the galaxy Far beyond our universe so old Lies more, the story’s yet untold