Mar 2020
Distant stars, somewhere so far
Sparkling alike fireflies
Still unsure if they are still alive
Some say they are old photographs
The stars are no more stars
Maybe once they were heavenly bodies on fire
Brightened the horizon and tailored life somewhere
Yet now they are no more.
The light travels quite slowly
And the distance is even more.
It’s not you who are gazing
The stars have gazed long before.
Your present is their past.
Long gone, they have.
Sparkling alike fireflies
Still unsure if they are still alive
Some say they are old photographs
The stars are no more stars
Maybe once they were heavenly bodies on fire
Brightened the horizon and tailored life somewhere
Yet now they are no more.
The light travels quite slowly
And the distance is even more.
It’s not you who are gazing
The stars have gazed long before.
Your present is their past.
Long gone, they have.
A friend asked explain it. So here's the thought behind this poem.
The stars that we see in the sky are billions of light years away. We see things when light reflect upon them e.g, Moon or if light is being emitted by them, like stars. But light hardly travels at 3,00,000 km per second. In some cases the light emitted by these stars would take billions of years to reach Earth. So what we see in the night sky is actually billion year old reflections of these stars. So the allegory here is, stars and one's past looks bright from present. But when you were actually living it, it might not be all rosy as it seems now.
The stars that we see in the sky are billions of light years away. We see things when light reflect upon them e.g, Moon or if light is being emitted by them, like stars. But light hardly travels at 3,00,000 km per second. In some cases the light emitted by these stars would take billions of years to reach Earth. So what we see in the night sky is actually billion year old reflections of these stars. So the allegory here is, stars and one's past looks bright from present. But when you were actually living it, it might not be all rosy as it seems now.
