SKY AT NIGHT

SKY AT NIGHT

 

I am transfixed when I see the sky at night

Stars deceive you with their twinkling light

Some are coloured, others flickering white

Far away from the cities the sky is jet black

As if someone had given the daytime back

Billions of stars, but it is focal length I lack

 

Beyond gravity, seeing the Earth in blue

It’s our atmosphere that gives it that hue

Strong detachment from home, it is true

Out here, one is a cold and lonely entity

With three planets aligned, it is a syzygy

But the bright sun brings us our energy

 

But looking much further out into space

It’s many galaxies jostling for their place

And will any black hole ever show its face

It seems so empty, hence is called a void

Dark gravitational pull makes it spheroid

New stars born as others are destroyed