Asteroid

After John 17:26

It was the asteroid, coming

seemingly from nowhere,

hitting or landing in an out-of-the-way

place with tremendous force

and impact, but almost unnoticed 

farther away, until the shock waves

and the wind and the waves

radiating from the center

embraced everything it their path,

and everything was in their path,

until nothing was untouched,

nothing left the same,

nothing left unchanged, fundamentally,

even the rocks and mountains,

the columned palaces and temples,

everything, everything was engulfed

in a wave of love,

everything, to the point that

the force could be resisted but

it could not be denied,

it could not be stopped.

Photograph by Bryan Goff via Unsplash. Used with permission.