Distant star

You look at me
cold and impassively
There's no hint of friendship
or understanding
but it must be there!
I am just the latest
in my line, that you have watched
distant and contemplative.

Collectively, we have struggled,
under your unfathomable gaze,
to survive and build -
and we grow stronger.

Now, it finally seems that
things that were once unknowable are understood,
and thoughts that could not be conceived are spoken of.

Oh, distant star,
shrouded in your sovereign mantle,
do not be too lofty
do not be too condescending.
Because we, these miserable creatures,
you have observed through the ages.
We now turn our instruments thouward.

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This is about human progress. For millennia we have looked at the world around us and the skies and we are now beginning to understand...
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