Ordinary People Don't Look Up at Stars

Ordinary People Don't Look Up at the Stars


Ordinary people don’t look up at the stars
Day to day life is summed up in 8 words
I don’t know where I will be next
We make a trillion decisions
They all end in death.

Ordinary people don’t appreciate the clouds
Life is tapered from beginning to end
Innocence born, may fade away
But it was fuller in birth
Than it is today

Ordinary people don’t look up at the sky
The horizon is just a thing beyond you
We see the things that disappear
But the stars will remain
When you’re not here

Ordinary people don’t look deep into space
We purchase rapture with a lease on joy
I will see only what relates to me
Astronomers can study stars
Which never cease to be

Ordinary people don’t look up at the stars
Next to eternity our lives are nothing
While our lungs fill us with breath
To look upon eternal skies
Is to look at death