The Stars and Beyond

Stars

Someone once told that to look into the night sky is to look into the past

To behold the stars above and beyond you in an endless dark so vast

For the stars are light that reach us from a time we can’t comprehend

Waves that fracture and distill, twist, turn and bend

What does one behold when they look up into something that can turn into any shade?

Heaven, hell, dreams, nightmares or clouds just being made?

I look to the small crescent of moon and feel such awe

To be able to see something so incredible, such a phenomenon and something so far

I look at the planes full of people in our atmosphere flying to any destination

People in hope of an escape, going for business or maybe just a vacation

I feel so tiny and unextraordinary compared to the universe that lie beyond

This dazzling abyss with infinite capacity that I somehow feel so fond

But the stars still hold me in captivity for they shine and twinkle so bright

And they allow me to time travel as I gawk and stare at their ever dying light