71

From plants, with hands, they made automobiles.
And trains, and planes, and rocket ships.
I was there, when they learned the could end the world
and dug themselves underground until they couldn't breathe.
I've borrowed the books, and I've sat with the wise,
and I've been a million places between the sea and the shore.
And I see you standing there
with your arms uncrossed
like you'll know what's behind you if you just look at me.
But I've been staring between stars too long.
At the empty black space where the things we can't see,
the things that question everything, might be.