• Here I stand once again,
    on the shore between
    Earth and Sky.
    Stars wheel above my head;
    below my feet,
    the earth sleeps.
    In a dream, I step
    out of my mind,
    out of the world,
    into a place of the unknown.
    And yet – not unknown.
    I have been here before,
    and not alone.
    Perhaps you, too, have visited
    a palace of stars,
    nestled in the embrace of the planets.
    Perhaps you have seen
    the clouds rolling in –
    watched them smother the stars
    and blanket the Earth
    in a quiet cloak of rain.
    Perhaps, in a dream, we have
    plunged to the center
    of a merciless black hole;
    observed the mysteries of the universe;
    witnessed the final, searing flames
    of a dying star;
    and finally, as the sun
    made its way home around the galaxy,
    we circled in for a landing
    amid the peaceful dreams on Earth.