Campus Wordsmiths: "Eternity"

"We lose touch with the reality of such

Constellations and the stars,

That shimmering light

Of the backbone of the night..."

When the night sky returns in silence,

Spreading its primordial canvas,

A ceiling mural unchanged and timeless,

It brings to me an immortal likeness.

Oh, how seldom I look at your glorious face!

In my life of noise and chaos,

Daily futility and distraction,

Nightly musing and resignation,

Totaling to a tangible nothing,

Were it not for this Night,

O the never-changing sable sight,

Of the everlasting starlight,

I’d believe in the permanence of change!

Thus I fix my gaze upon your eternal beacons

Beckoning to me from beyond the eons,

Near where Time began.

There! Eternity!

I found thee!

-Dedicated to Carl Sagan