how many stars to accompany the moon

If you've ever wondered how many stars
It takes to accompany the moon
It is three

We've laughed
We've cried
We've hoped

It is you it is me it is we a complex of stem and leaf and vein

When greens are green
And everything is right When
We've overturned the rock to find the wheat
We've turned bad ground good
We've turned lost place found
We will  set broken heart right
And pieced together hope's sound

That does not stray or unwind as clock's time
That does not play with men as less than men
Or protrude into sea or underground
That does not wait to soothe
Or mix with joy
Should hardship come (it will come to all but not divined and not for all's time) we can know
It is safe to say
It is sure to say
We go around once as little planets in the shade
As if coming across open fields and fertile land for the first time
As if hearing music for the first time
Or smiling for the first time after hospital days

to go from dismal to surefooted in:across one prayer
To be turned round right when
Sleep has been away

Is right. It is right for the sick to be healed and for the lost to be returned home.

Between birth and death
Lays the longest hour
Life itself coming around the bend
To be made real
To ground pain's dull pain It Lays Behind