This dimmer light, morning star
far tells of journeys to come
across vast interstellar forests
and life aloft a streaming cosmos

Left behind those mists and mud
to climb upon a gibbous back
scale to heights' resilient blood
view myriad curtains of  jet black

To seek in depths of infinite space
a place, a home away from home
and if return does not retrace
then let these gypsies' heart safe roam

For in our nursery lessons learned
of anger, fear, greed, mistrust
their opposites must need be earned
as nature slings its stars to dust

-cec