No More To the Stars

No more to the stars (In memeory of the Space Shuttle) We are held to the distant reaches bound Where the starlit universe is pondered, Where few shall catch a cosmic essence Present in our amazement and wonder; But time and dreams have past us by Soundless, like emotions gone In the frailty of a star Space is imagined like the solitude of existence As silent as the substance of our nature, And the purity of its mysterious enigma Is lost as dawn approaches, Nature is humbled in the miracle of creation Where unfulfilled remains our journey No more to the stars Amazing the spectacular places beyond, Uncertain the virtue of our doubts, For once in space could mankind vision The wonder of creation; Reach out now to an instant in time, Far past the destiny determined To this place of inspiration In our uncertain universe remains no tomorrow For in darkness we are defined, Past where ‘the same creator who knows the stars’ Waits both moral and righteous, Or they who stare through placid solitude ‘To break the surly bonds of earth, And touch the hand of god’ By m.norton