Cosmic Embrace

('I' refers to God.) In dolour, he descried the leafless pine And under its shade of dearth lay supine, Cerebrating how not e'en grains of sand Pay heed to him nor his woe understand. I thus deigned to limn Myself on his sky To consume its vacuity strewn so high That I painted a canopy of stars And shaded him from the plots of scheming Mars. I then, in all literality, blanketed him In the fabric of the welkin, and seraphim Watered his lifeless pine with lullabies And read him tales and cosmic alibis. And ere scarcely closed his eyne and sleep's kiss, I restored the sky; on it drew a marvel of bliss. Then after the cosmos fondled his heart to peace and reverie, I turned it all into a dream and dissolved it in his memory.