You walk in
and the world walks away
from whatever it was doing
for just a fragment of that day

There is no forward, no back, no other way
for this spherical, circular, world bent on its way
to keep on spinning any longer

In your orbit it stops
and absorbs your wandering radiance
as a warming sponge

For a moment at least
the greatest light of this universe concedes
and your radiance rivals the sun

Vance