Living in the 21st Century (6): Man and His Sun

Louis Egbe Mbua

A nuclear factory the Devine Hand flung
Into space the yellow disc afloat stays
In suspense, a mystery to man clung
In search of answers the straight rays
Bring onto earth: ninety three million
Miles adding in eight seconds a blaze,
Half the earth a shine to be gone
The light to the other side the earth rotates
In slight tilts, the slight wobble known
But no man a spinning feeling to gaze.
Round and around the earth spins
On its own axis forms nights and days;
Morning comes and evening returns
As the yellow giant around it spins in space.

In the middle of its core 15 million superhot;
Of two gases one from the other derived
From floating primeval hydrogen super gas
Under pressure another element created;
And the thermo-nucleus a dense fiery core
That explodes so all stars are renewed
With energy as light and heat radiates
Through the cosmos giving matter and life
On earth maintaining energy balances
So, man to see a reason to work and live.
All is in full harmony, are heavenly bodies
Created from dust of stars in the Universe
And from Devine dust the man emerges.
In the Universe the man forever will dwell
Until dust will all stars and man return?