Aurora

Blink

Tell me what you see

The Earth

At the palm of my hand

All its majesty and grandeur

Formed by only sea and land

Blink

Now what do you perceive?

Planets

9, no 8, in all

It just takes my breath away

How they all look so small

Blink

Is there anything new you discern?

The galaxies

Oh, there really aren’t words to say

Such astounding beauty

Don’t wake me, please let me stay

Open your eyes

You’ve been gone far too long

Drifting ever further away

In a direction that is wrong

Blink

Look outside, tell me what you glimpse

Colours

People, cars, and the sky so blue

Like an aurora

Their colours are pretty too

Think

We all look too far for beauty

For what has always been near

You should never stop living

In the now and the here

Now blink
And stop making the universe shrink

-Izzat R.