A Blossoming Spirit

Sitting on the backseat of a car, with one of my friends driving, I look up at the night sky, painted in deep hues of blue and black. There is a quiet joy in the air. My friend seems happy driving, and I feel the same, carried gently without needing to know where we are going.

As always, I get lost in the vastness above me.

And then, suddenly, I see it –  a rainbow.

A rainbow in the night sky.

“It’s not something I ever saw before”, I thought 

How can this be possible?  

I pause without a blink already in awe of what I am witnessing.

But it doesn’t stop there.

The rainbow begins to change. 

Slowly, softly, it transforms into something even more beautiful, more luminous.

“Is this real?” I ask myself.


“Is the rainbow… turning into a galaxy?”

The colors deepen – bright blues, purples, yellows, and pinks- expanding, growing, filling the space I was looking at. 

“I want the time to pause, I do not want this to disappear, I want to stay there, 
I want to keep watching.” I thought.

When light meets the rains – a rainbow appears.
But a galaxy? It’s like the slow evolution of life unfolding, with the creation of something beautiful in the midst of chaos, the vastness within which I can rarely see, and the knowing that I am a part of something so big, grandeur and mysterious!

I woke up! Happy! Smiling!
Holding onto the feeling before it slips away.
Quickly reaching for my phone, trying to capture what I saw, what I felt.

A rainbow that turned into a galaxy.

A galaxy that I carry within me.