Night Sky
I look up Into the night sky Looking back into The history of the universe This mystery I see A thousand stars And clouds of dust Presented to me From long, long ago And just a fragment Not even a whole Arm of the galaxy For it unfolds Well beyond the sky That sits on the horizon Before my small eye A dizzying array In the dark, dark desert This bright reminder Of how dark and small I am On this ball of dust And water Spinning out into an eternity Of history With the possibility that Empires are falling Before my eyes like Stars caught in the greater Gravity of a singularity