Literature
On Stars
The sun has seen a million years
Thrown away without a glance
While we, like insects buzzing,
Ticking, burning through time,
Consume each minute one by one.
To us, time is a poison;
Too much of it destroys us
And the only antidote is death
Death, or one look up,
The only other thing
That takes away our mind from our fate.
When day does not delude us,
We crane our necks skyward;
They make us feel young again,
The one changeless thing,
Perfect in a world of imperfection.
The places in the curtain sweep of sky
Where the light falls through,
Little tears in the cloth to the other side.
They make us feel young again,
Bu