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Entered, August 16, 2025

The Space Between Stars


Our sky of midnight blue with stardust shines-
     while in our minds, an endless span they share.
Each brilliant speck, a star much like our Sun, defines
     the vast enormity within our stare.

What lies between each blinking star's broad space?
     For sure, they're many billion miles away,
where all, as our Earth's sun, may too embrace
     of what revolves as planets there to stay.

Romantic is our sky neath starlit glow;
     so close, and yet so far- it makes us gasp.
That space is relative to what we know.
     What lies between the stars, we cannot grasp.

We wish upon the stars for peace and love.
      And now, for that alone, we stare above.
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