Making the Universe

Making the Universe
  --for Scarlett
Together we
created constellations

placed a star
just ... here.

Another ... there.

Formed Orion.
The Great Bear.

Bettlejuice flowed
from our fingers.

You knelt
in prayer

golden curls
cascading over your shoulders

you the perfect
cherub.

"Our Father who art
in Heaven ..."

You prayed with
all the might of being
3 and a bit

10 packets later of day-glow stars
we had set the Universe to right.


by Donal Dempsy (via 3quarksdaily)