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Vast expanses and deathly silence
Harrowing blackness and explosions in violence
So far out, and yet so near
A whisker away, just beyond the atmosphere
The Universe was perhaps never meant to be studied as science
No wonder Nature withholds all her secrets in defiance
The literates persist with their singularities and their Big Bang
Unabashedly neglecting the dreamers' quiet harangue
Leave the skies be, let alone the stars
Venture beyond your heathen numbers, look for the saga in their scars
Cry for Altair and Vega, separated by galaxies, but for a day a year
Revel in Perseus' love, waging entire wars for his Andromeda dear
Surrender your quests, give up your rationale
Align with the lunatics, gaze at our glittering locale
Question not of how it all came to be
Only revere in awe, the stardust that makes you and me