Here the coldness of space enters our bones
-the night open to the far distant flung Universe.
How fragile and puny our bodies and minds grasp
-on the distances that reach down across the vastness.
Tipped away from the Sun here in the north
-our days few hours of light swallowed by the dark.
We shiver huddled around our hearths meagre warmth
-deep into the ancient blackness cold as centuries old dead stars.