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Stepping outside into the midnight chill
Standing still, head tilted upwards
Neck craned back, staring, searching
Allowing starlight to fill my eyes
A blanket above my head
Heavy with the darkness
Penetrated by the glow
Of a million shining orbs
Impossible not feel humbled
Awestruck by the sight
Lost in the moment
Far too many to ever count
As many as there have been ancestors
Smiling down through the years
From their lofty perch on high
It's the biting wind alone
That brings tears to my eyes
Not the infinite beauty and scale
Of the stars above my head
I assure myself every time
I marvel at the colossal balls of flame
Burning up, dying, blinking out of existence
A million miles away in a far off galaxy
The light I'm seeing now could be from a star
That died a hundred years ago, long before our time
Shining on, eternal, forever
The atoms in my body came from those stars
Drifting through space, colliding
A chance in a million to collect together
To make me, yet here I am
Everything we are as a species
How far we have evolved
All we have done
Is possible thanks to the stars
We are all a product of stardust
Far away whispers, long ago reactions
We are strong and yet life is fragile
All we have created, built, destroyed
And yet we still gaze up at the stars
With the wide-eyed wonder of children
A hundred years, a thousand, a million
How much time has passed
And will continue
They were here long before us
And they will shine on long after