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Standing on the Shoulders of Giants
August 24, 2015
As the sun casts its red shadow over the valley,
The city lights up.
Cars traverse the roads,
Their headlights,
Streetlights,
Illuminating the darkness.
So many stories–
Of people driving home,
People working for hours on end,
People dancing through the night.
Yet on the mountain,
There are the lights obscured by
Lampposts and headlights.
All the galaxies, stars, black holes, nuclei, quasars, coronas, spectra,
All the lines of code
Try to comprehend a handful of sand
On this cosmic beach
That rises over the concrete maze,
As trees fall,
People fall,
Buildings fall,
Nations fall,
Civilizations fall,
In some form,
They are still up there
© Allison H., Vancouver, WA
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This poem was inspired by my trip to an observatory during an astrophysics research internship, I was finally able to look beyond the coding required to analyze the structure galactic nuclei and just appreciate the night sky.