To the Star Child
Have you ever taken a moment
To look at that bright planet
Hanging in the night sky that they
Tell you was once a place
We called home?
It's not anymore, of course
Just another rocky, uninhabited
Planet of decay and ruins you
Might explore when you
Grow up
Maybe your home looks much
The same as the one I knew
But there are some things
I'll have seen that you won't
Find waiting in the cosmos you love
Oceans, full of life and longing
And sunken ships, a mass
Grave for those who lost
Their way exploring its
Waiting depths
Our constellations that
Told our history and
Dreams, if you connected
Them in just the right way
Coloring the black sky
The monuments that our
Ancestors left us, as if
To impress us with their
Towering pyramids and
Hopeful art portraying everything
But maybe there's one thing
I'll always have that you'll
Never understand, like
How the stars were always
Just out of reach