Watching the Hubble Repairs

Suspended Womblike Pearly cloud and sapphire blue of sea Turn day to night night to day In endless succession Beneath the tiny being floating in the Nothing At work on an instrument to help his kind See deeper through the endless void They all sail through together Birth to Death The black ocean of stars and worlds Adrift in icy silence. Eternity beckons just over your shoulder But don't look - the vastness will kill your mind - Concentrate on repairing that mechanical eye, For steel and glass can't be affected so. Focus on the huge and tenuous beauty of Home Rolling beneath you as you hang in frozen fall Marvel how - even this close - she gives no sign Of the struggles seething below Of the constant flashing on and off Of all her teaming life Of the untold eyes of untold creatures Now watching their world roll by On tiny glowing boxes Given an Angel's view Through eyes of steel and glass.