the boy and his universe.
The boy and his sky
During the day when the sky was blue
And the sun shone brightly over a sleepless world
The boy looked up towards the heavens
With his feet firmly planted on the Earth
And he wondered
Just how much nothing
Existed beyond this planet
The boy and his stars
At night, after stars have appeared
Infinite pin-pricks in the thick black of the sky
The boy watched the blinking lights
Laying sprawled across the grass (in his yard)
And he decided
That he would be the one to discover
The nothing that existed beyond Earth
The boy and his invention
Through day and night
Sun setting to unveil stars
The boy worked tirelessly
To create something that would let him see
And he invented
A strange and brilliant thing
That had never existed before
The boy and his telescope
After months of creating, inventing, building
On a night with no clouds to block the stars
The boy positioned his telescope
So it pointed to the unobstructed view of the heavens
And he looked
Up at the infinite black sky
Expecting to find nothing
The boy and his universe
But instead of finding nothing
But an eternal dark sea of sky
The boy discovered stars and planets and galaxies
Billions more pin-pricking the black
And he claimed
These stars and planets and galaxies for himself-
His own personal universe that Earth knew nothing of