Ascension

Where is “up” for you now

that you have slipped from our sight

but still find your way into our being

we have been above the clouds

and planted lunar footprints

and watched Voyager move beyond the heliosphere

all we saw was a vast lonely world

not a trace of your friendly face

not even that visage in the rocks of Mars

So where is “up” for you, anyway?

Is it like a hypercube that we can’t construct

in our 3D world, but only see shadows of

or is it a furtive movement within

a shifting expanse in spacetime so that you

move beyond the infinite and wormhole your way back to us

and so your up has become a down

into our bodies and minds and heres and nows

and bread and wine and thanksgiving