Like Planets in a Single Galaxy We All Are.

It’s a funny thing, isn’t it?
How much like planets in a single galaxy we all are,
caught in the great gravity of a common star.
With the attractions and oppositions
that occur during our passage,
the arc and swing of our orbits,
differing densities generating their own gravities,
affecting us,
either negatively or positively or indifferently.
Some disrupting or disturbing us for the worse,
others aligning our own paths for the better,
gliding in gentle sympathy,
and others still,
who never affect us at all,
their orbits aligned in harmony with ours,
but distant, impersonal.