how far it is
to the nearest star,
or that it would take
our fastest craft 50,000 years
to get there.
I wish I hadn’t learnt
that there are 400 billion
stars in our galaxy
and 500 billion
galaxies to date
that we can estimate.
I wish my horizon
was where the land stops
and the sky starts,
for then I might understand
why everything seems
so important -
the way that animals do;
whose only world
is that within their view.
How I wish I didn’t know
how far it is
to the nearest star.
John H Davies
15th March 2011
How your poems make me think outside my comfort zone. Profound.
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