A Sky-Scape Through Time

By Ingrid Muñoz

Isn't it funny, how the star that is literally in all our backyards,

is the one we have the most trouble looking at?

8 minutes away, at the speed of light.

But in turn, we are all given the gift of night, of darkness,

to shed a different light on the canvas above.

Stars to equal grains of sand.

More than we could count together in a lifetime, stars so far away,

they are living and dying long before we see it happen.

Time is an illusion, they say.

The nocturnal artist paints for each of us a different sky-scape each night,

to remind us of so many things, awesome and perplexing.

What is it telling you tonight?