As light fades and darkness rises the most beautiful flowers bloom, glimmering crystals, beneath, above, a spiraling nebula The wind is stardust kissing my lips, filling my lungs where oxygen is none, and brushing light as petals against my pale skin The celestial fields cradle me and display a spectrum before my eyes, clusters of all colors, a painting of the galaxy By midnight soft voices, enchanting spells of dark matter, reverberate through my mind clearing the static, the shadows, the fear For once, everything is so gentle, so peaceful, so loving Until dawn rises and I must return from my place among the stars Where I'll wait for the harsh daylight to settle, then return to my gallery of constellations in the heavens