The Canvas of Night

Stars like sprinkled sugar,
lay strewn across the canvas of night,

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enthralled by the wonder of the cosmos,
my dreams take to the heavens in effervescent flight,

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I bathe in the beauty, soaked in sublime delight,
absorbed in moments of bliss, transfixed by the serene sight.

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Stars like sprinkled sugar,
lay strewn across the canvas of night,

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and my being is infused with feelings of hope,

for even in darkness I find the sprinkled sugar of hope’s light.

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note: special thanks to one of my heroes, the late Dr. Carl Sagan, for making science accessible to younger me, many, many moons ago.