Today I Saw The Sky

Today is the sky's day.
A stranger from the seven days
Of twirling Earth
Today the Earth stops dancing
And looks up at its sky
Today
I looked up

It'd been a time since I saw that, you know
It's great;
If the world was flat,
Today the sky is
Wide, expansive, impossibly huge, awesome -
Fitting canvas for a storm
Or a few cracks of lightning
Or, even better, a round of snow.
A good work of art, better, I think,
Than the Shakespeares that shadow our past

Not that Avon's Bard is bad or anything -
But isn't it time enough we looked at the present?
I was born the other day,
Couple of blocks behind this year -
I wasn't alive and kicking when the Homers and Platos
And Chaucers and Shakespeares did their stuff

I was born the other day,
Crying,
And when I stopped crying,
I looked around.
And it was beautiful, I tell you -
I didn't need art to endow another imagination to me
To gasp at what I saw
What I saw was wonder,
Wonder was what I saw,
And I still think the world,
My world,
My present world,
Where although black smoke dances high the sky is still blue,
Where although the ozone is thin it still rains,
Where although the nights are cold the Sun always rises,
Oh -
I still think this world is wonderful.
The Sun always rises here.
I am happy.
I am hopeful.
The Sun always rises here.
And this world around me
This is all the Shakespeare I need.
Here is all the Chaucer I need.
Here is all the Plato I need.
Here is all the Homer I need.
This is the masterpiece
Let me admire it.