Telescope

In farthest gaze of lonely star
blazes forth an endless flare
within where shines a glorious fire
of light and love and ecstacy
of murderers and mothers
glory and assassins
conquest and collapse
where war stalks battered landscapes
of stone and sea and struggling heart
so peace can soothe all weary minds
while fragile order battles chaos
and death becomes the avatar of life

endless generations fight
through darkened ignorance to light
and the hands of species
cupped around the uplift
of technology and reasoned thought
rise up to touch the nearest stars

in that precious instant
where mind expands
all futures known and bright
we realize we are
much more than simply one
that in our loneliness of life
we share so much
and gazing out into the dark we know
above all else
above the hate and love
despair and joy
birth and death and work and play
above it all
above this fray:

We Are