SPARKLE SPARKLE MYRIAD STARS
WAY BEYOND VENUS JUPITER AND RED MARS
THEIR LIVES EXTINCT AEONS AGO
YET THEIR INCANDESCENT LIGHT
STILL SHINES ILLUMINATINGLY SO
FOR HUMANKIND'S PLEASURE AND PERPETUAL DELIGHT
GALAXY UPON GALAXY THERE ARE BILLIONS
THE FIGURE TOO EPIC TO COUNT IN PERPETUAL NIGHT
COULD BE MILLIONS TRILLIONS MORE THAN ZILLIONS
WE CANNOT CONTEMPLATE OR FATHOM
YET STILL MANY REMAINING SKEPTIC
SHALL WE EVER KNOW THE FIGURE
OF THESE AGE OLD CLUSTERS OF ATOMS
STILL GROWING AS UNSEEN STARS STILL EXPLODE
IN THEIR AIRLESS DARK YET UNTRAVELLED ABODE
THE HISTORY OF THE EARTH ITS RHYTMS GEOLOGICAL CYCLES AND PATTERNS SEEM INSIGNIFICANT IN THE VAST EXPANSE EXISTING BEYOND THE ATMOSPHERE OF OUR PLANET
MANY STILL TOO FAR TO VENTURE
COUNTLESS LIGHT YEARS AWAY PERHAPS NEVER TO EXPLORE
ONCE ANCIENT CULTURES BELIEVED
GODS AMONG THE STARLIGHT HELD THEIR SWAY
OVER THE VASTNESS OF A VISTA
THEY COULD NOT COMPREHEND THENCE PROVE
SO CONTRIVED THEORIES TO ASSUAGE
FEARS THEY PERCEIVED
YET TO THIS DAY SOME CULTURES
STILL BELIEVE IN THE GODS NEVER KNOWN
STILL THEIR BARREN BELIEF
PERPETUATES AND CONTINUES TO GROW
ONE DAY IN A FUTURE BARELY FAR AWAY
FROM THE SHIMMERING TWINKLING GIFT OF NOW MAN WILL BE ABLE TO TRAVEL EVEN BEYOND ALREADY SURVEYED WHERE BEFORE OUR IMAGINATION AND TELESCOPES HAD ONLY SEEN A LIMITED VIEW SURROUNDING OUR WORLD YET ASTRONAUTS WILL I BELIEVE SURPRISINGLY SOON AGAIN DISCOVER
WE WERE NEVER ALONE HOW COULD WE BE
SO MANY SIGHTINGS HAVE BEEN SEEN
OF AIRBORNE CRAFTS TOO SWIFT TO BE OF THIS PLANET
STILL ITS A MATTER OF CONFLICITNG CONJECTURE OF EVIDENCE
OF SOMETHING WE KNOW LITTLE OF AND WHERE FROM THEY HAILED SO WE BELIEVE ARDENTLY WE ARE THE ONLY INTELLIGENT CREATURES THAT HAVE GRACED OUR PLANET THEN ROCKETED INTO THE VAST UNIVERSE WHICH HITHERTO WAS MOSTLY STILL UNEXPLORED AND UNKNOWN YET NEVER STILL S0 TANTALISINGLY UNCORROBERATED
BEYOND FACT BASED SCIENTIFIC DISSECTION AND REACH
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