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