Elusive Sleep

Tonight sleep eludes me

Away from the city the air is clear

Free from fumes and light pollution

My curtains are not quite drawn

It is dark and I can see a slice of starry night

The light from distant galaxies come to rest upon my retina

That light may have left its parent star millions of years ago

Long before Homo Sapiens

Perhaps when dinosaurs roamed the earth

Or before our sphere was formed

That star may now have burnt out

But its light continues to race unhindered through space

I reflect on time

Compared with celestial time

My allotted span on Earth is insignificant

A mere few seconds in a day of human life on earth

When I die and burn or rot away

The atoms of my body

Will go on for they can never be destroyed

They will be recycled

So in death we are all the ultimate recyclers

So we are not lost

Just redistributed

I get up and fully draw the curtains

Too many distractions

To hinder that elusive sleep