Eyes agape I wait and watch, as the awesome darkness falls
Casting blackness far and wide, it's bleak penumbra sprawls
Light deserts us all below, for the shortest, longest spell
Intrigue morphs to terror, as this realisation swells
Paltry, pointless, trivial, how irrelevant am I? A speck of an iota
in this vast, galactic sky
Standing, rooted to the spot, my apprehension starts to wane,
as the yellow fire in the sky
makes its presence felt again
Eyes aglow, the light breaks through as the sun appears to say,
that each iota plays a part
in this cosmic, Milky Way
About the Creator
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Comments (2)
This was so beautiful written! Loved your poem!
Well done!