How does one feel when they glimpse
the pure night sky?
Alone,
Enthralled,
Fascinated,
Questioning,
And yet,
Dismal.
For we see only half, of the whole truth.
What stars?
I have seen the stars,
This is not their irradiant glory,
This is a poor semblance,
A portrayal of our Ignorance.
We cannot see
The stars,
By our own hands we have blinded ourselves,
From the single-most
Awe-inspiring,
Demoralizing,
Ego-diminishing experience,
And it shows.
Constantly busying ourselves,
we fail to make time to gaze skyward and
dwell,
When you look at the sky, you are
Forced to question.
Those who do not look,
Do not question,
Those who do not question,
Accept,
And those who accept,
are blind.
Blind,
Deaf,
And dumb.
Led here,
Led there,
From pasture to pasture.
Fed ideas like they’re kibble,
And the dogs are hungry.
It’s a dangerous thing,
to gaze up,
There is always the chance
Of choking
On your own existence.
How will we awaken the masses
From their eternal slumber?
A difficult task when
their heads lull ,
from the self-induced hypnosis.
The light is what we need,
And they stars,
They give it.
But we drown it out,
and substitute it with
the eternal hum of the artificial glow.
Deprivation,
The population thrives on it.
Honestly,
I would be stunned,
Nay, terrified,
If every mind awoke to the reality,
of the vast insignificance.
You can hear the minds imploding.
You can feel the torrent
of individual thought.
Danger.
Terror threat level Severe,
Burning red.
I have seen the stars,
Filling every void in the infinite blackness,
Radiating their celestial secrets,
Tantalizingly close to revelation,
Yet lost in translation.
You find your true self,
When alone with the stars,
No one except,
Your thoughts.
Oh,
what a dangerous place to be,
Floating somewhere between consciousness,
and stellar knowledge.
Will you rise to the Astral Summons?
Seek respite
from the electron hum,
Find yourself under the endless
luminous canopy,
And question.