POETRY: "If All is Relative"

This is from the August/September 2009 issue of First Things

If All Is Relative

An interrogative:

If all is relative

And truth (like time and space)

Has no fixed thought or place

Where God has said, "be still,"

Why can't I simply will

That truth be as it seems

In all my ego-schemes?

So, spinning on my heel,

I'll deem this cosmic wheel--

The whole, not some few stars,

But galaxies as far as

Light itself extends

Or human thought ascends--

May be just what I see,

One vast complexity

All orbiting around me!

--N.E. Dunkle