What tales are told in stars above,
How reflected here below,
What light extinguished in that plane,
Here leaving remnant glow
What universes stretch beyond,
Expand imagination,
What heavenly bodies once foretold
Splutter conflagration
How to attest our ignorance
Even as we learn
To reach beyond with minds, machines
Unto skies for which we yearn
How best to seize this knowledge
And such wonders so profound,
To be among the source of life,
Feet harnessed to the ground
How infinite the galaxies
From atom so compressed,
Energy empowered such
Thus our world is blessed.
What power so held by mighty force
That crushed one atom then
Created all, watched it expand
Source from way back when
A spot of dust became so vast
By massless, weightless form
Light from light eternal
Is this how we were born?
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