Looking at the moon

I look at the moon:  
two innocent spheres of white  
joined by light with a kindred form.

My spirit is already there:  
only my body holds back:  
since gravity has thrown about a cloak  
which my being wears  
reluctantly.

And the cloak is the body itself:  
a fleshy jacket  
to retard the soul's celerity.

Otherwise, I would blaze out  
in a single instant  
and make my home upon that star,  
in the fields of infinite beauty.