See what I see

I stop to look at stars.

No matter where I am,

No matter where I’ve been.

The sky lends us all her mysteries;

A sneak peek into the other side.

The sprawling unknown that no human mind

Can ever fathom or pretend to understand.

I look at the stars and I remember we are

Just grains of sand, beached on a blue marble

Lost in an ocean of leviathans.

Try as we may, we’ll never

see the strings that tie us all together:

From here to andromeda

to Greater Places unknown.

Racing toward the Great Attractor where

We will all be once again formed as one.

Smashing and colliding

Weaving and subsidizing.

Until the pressure builds so greatly

Our bubble will burst with a big bang

Scattering the shreds of us across the abyss.

Nothing more than energy,

Designed to be recycled.

And new civilizations will build

And think that they’re unique.

And wonder what it all means.

Maybe they’ll look at the stars too

And see what I see.