Stardust
The stars shine bright and distant Upon our blue swirled globe And I the child of their dust Rest my thoughts upon their majesty The flaming heat of their existence That reaches us as cool, faint, light Shining upon us equally Where we spin upon our globe By contrast my grand adventure Over continent and ocean Farther than I have ever gone before By orders of magnitude Is but a blip in the path Of the photons they emit If the stars can shine relentlessly Their photons travel light-years untiring Then surely I can make this journey This skip across our globe To explore the wondrous unknown Beneath the gaze of ancient stars.