There was Newton
and the story of the apple
scarcely more credible
than the other older story
and there was Einstein
thinking his way more deeply
into time and space
than anyone before him
and now some hold to string theory
which postulates a particle
unimaginably small
but I imagine gravity an angel
God's chief architect
whose handiwork
is manifest
in individual atoms and in stars
whole galaxies still coalescing
out of dust
let's call it love
this force that holds us
to our planet
keeps this earth
tethered close
but not too closely
to its star
which likewise spins
through space on its long journey
circling the center
of the Milky Way
held on its course
by this angelic power