Night Sky Magic

Night
The stars
Below, below
Wish that I could paint them
The universe that wraps us
In the question of how it all began
Fucking marvelous, that
How can we piss away
In pettiness
Such an amazing thing
As this life?
That which consumes us:
Hate, petulance and war
Summoning sardonic
Attitudes and taking
For granted
Light traveling light years
From stars perhaps extinct
Our own mortality
Linked to these lights,
Indefinite, finite
We shine for only
So long.