Asteria

Almost everyone

from the modern age

spiralling back

thousands of years

to our earliest ancestors

has looked up and witnessed

the same starry sky.

Fashion trends come and go.

A kaleidoscope of nations

and empires rise and fall.

The landscape itself

breaks apart and reforms under

the same starry sky.

Now our city lights

drown out the stars.

We forget that they are there,

and will be there

long after we are gone.

We delude ourselves

that we are immortal.

On a clear night,

far from the neon signs

and empty lives,

a single glance up

and you will see

the endless echo of eternity.

The map of of all possibility.

Beauty, dread, wonder, awe

and so much more.

All within

the same starry sky.