To the stars in the night sky

The Earth drapes her like a veil
A motley cape, festooned with stars
A clear radiance, shining forth
Many-pointed light, lambent, but pale
From deepest reaches to neighbour Mars
And Polaris, a constant effulgence up north

Oh night! Vast are thy charms
Enthralling the atmosphere in black
A wonderful, velvety, lucid dim
Often has humankind spread his arms
To seek the answers that he may lack
And the expanse that appeals to him.

He watches the stars, an observer of fate
Though their light is cold & austere
It gives him an idea of his scale
How small he is, as the universe great
Bedecked in distant alien light, yet clear
For all his strength, he is still yet frail.

A distant flame before the sun
Burning up in space uncharted
Some can see constellations in their lines
But look well for the hidden ones
The space of constellations long departed
And their concealed remnant signs.

The magic of the stars lies not in their shapes
But rather the dark between
The shadows within their elusive light
The dark, where your mind can't escape
And instead wanders, forever keen
In inter galactic flight.

And thus man will surely find solace
In the heavens, where all seems naught
A dreamers' home, an eternal dance
The cosmos are a mystifying place
And the earth is but a pale blue dot
Staring up, in a bewitched trance.