Stars - a poem

Stars

I could look up at the stars forever,
So quiet and peaceful in their huge dark place!
So majestically they twinkle down at me,
Little stars floating far out in space!

Little stars from where I am looking,
But huge beyond anything I could possibly conceive!
Somehow us little men have fit them into our time-scale,
Now that's the hardest thing to believe!

All the lives that were spent looking and observing,
Thousands of lives in as many years!
But no matter how much we tell ourselves we know of them,
Our knowledge isn't going to somehow draw them near!

Why do we have to understand the Universe?
Why do we have to know how everything works?
Why do we have to seek out the beginning?
Why can't we see we're bringing ourselves to and end!

Long after we've managed to fuck this world up,
Long after our species is a long time extinct,
Long after all our clocks have stopped ticking,
Stars will still twinkle - twinkle far out in space!

Now I don't aim to knock the astronomers,
For their studies have taught me what I know!
And although I gave my Mother the star Sirius,
Sirius is a place we'll never get to go!

The Plough isn't going to work in my garden,
And not because the Plough is just a small part of the Big Bear!
The Plough is a silly name us destructive men gave to it,
But all those individual stars are just where they are!

I could look up at the stars forever,
And just absorb the feeling they feed to me!
As beautiful as my twinkling stars are to me,
Out in space is where I want them to be!

The stars they aren't looking down on us,
The stars don't care where they came from,
The stars don't give a flying fuck about Religion,
The stars don't try to keep up with time!

I could look up at the stars forever,
But forever I shall not be around!
So tonight I shall find time to glance at them,
As I look up, my feet are firmly on the ground!