Amongst the Stars

Partly inspired by Arthur C. Clarke's Childhood's End

I dreamed a dream one night,
I dreamed of the stars and all that lay beyond.

I careered through space and time
and witnessed the birth and death of suns and planets.

Such wondrous, impossible things I saw in the unmeasured distances.
Out there I understood that beginnings and ends made no sense—
they were one and the same: Eternity.

Looking back—or what seemed to me to be backwards—
I saw the faintest of lights,
a blueish light fighting to be seen in the nothingness.

It was life itself; there was beauty in its infancy and potential.
It was a home, a destination that already had been reached.

It all ended as soon as it began, this dream,
and I was left with a sense of wonder and wondering:

Is the future for the race amongst the stars?
or in this blueish light fighting for its own existence?

Ex Tempore LX
M.M. — 02-Sep-2013