Dark Skies
Nov 15 2023
The sky here is dark.
It's unnerving to think
how far I've travelled
to find it;
absence
in a world obsessed by abundance,
and where we are uncomfortable
alone with ourselves.
Of all that we've lost
in our endless striving,
dark skies may be the least of it.
But when I lie on my back
looking up
at the star-filled heavens
reaching back through time,
I think of poetry
and dispossession;
where less is more
and absence clarifies.
The brilliant stars
sharper than I've ever seen,
and the blackness between them
too deep for words.
But there is no place for black
on the visible spectrum,
no dimension
of nothingness
I can truly comprehend.
The dark matter, and dark energy
they say fills the universe
must be black as this,
absence
perhaps as beautiful
as surfeit and excess.
What I cannot see,
yet still can't look away.
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