Understanding Me
I look up into the bespeckled night sky
And oh what wonder engages my eye
The streaks of light mystify the mind
And oh what treasures might I find
Hiding within a constellation’s great lore
Asteroids and comets and meteors galore
A vast and ever increasing domain
Where only memory’s echo does remain
And to think this scene started so long ago
Yet tonight I stand illuminated in it’s glow
Looking out into a time now gone by
That I should stand beneath this very sky
Till it dawns on me that I’m a speck of dust
Chiseled from this spinning Earth’s crust
Still able to appreciate the grandeur I see
And come to a better understanding of me
In this great Universal scheme I’m a part
But I’m just a stroke in this work of art