Lyrics

As I mentioned in an earlier post, Dr. James Haines of Elizabethtown College asked me for some words that he might make into a hymn, to add to the Unitarian repertoire of song.  He has crafted some very beautiful music to some words I wrote, which I am posting here for the first time, as a poem.


I think it's appropriate to put this out here today, Good Friday 2011.  I hope you like it.


We Are All Made Of Stars

     © 2011 by Tom Hayes

We are all made of stars.

Stars that died so we could be.

Every atom of every element

Had its fiery birth

In the heart of an exploding sun.

This resurrection surrounds us every day,

A part of every person that we meet.

If we must speak of sacrifice

and of rebirth

Then let us speak about the stars.

We are all made of stars

Stars died so we could be

Every atom, every element

Had its fiery birth

In the heart of an exploding sun.

The light that once burned in a cold, dark place

Now shines from us in all the things we do.

At night we see our origins and destinies 

So let us speak about the stars.

We are all made of stars

Stars died so we could be

Every atom, every element

Had its fiery birth

In the heart of an exploding sun.