It’s dark,

Tiny specks lining the sky,

Randomly splayed out

Like freckles on a face.

Those tiny specks are stars.

They live there,

Unseen.

I’ve always wondered,

Is there more than this life?

The people on this Earth,

The hungry,

The tired,

The gorgeous

People,

Are they the only ones?

Maybe somewhere,

So far,

Something resides,

Happy and content,

Showered in love and affection.

But can anyone rea...

That orb there - shining

No, the one to the left

Yes, it’s shimmering -

Who is looking down at us?

Do we share emotions,

Thoughts, personalities?

Can we begin to comprehend

Life on that star, or another,

Or life anywhere besides here?

What do houses look like there,

The idea of home - is there one?

If there is not, we would have

To figure out a whole new way

Of thinking, and what a chor...

We stare up at the sky

Hand in hand

Not discussing our thoughts

But knowing just the same

I stare off into space

And I can almost see

Us living on our own planet

Just you and me

We would laugh and dance and sing

Not a care in the world

With each other for company

I would hold you close and you would let me

But in the end, its not meant to be...

Beyond the Elysian stars,

A much different world had opened,

Where matter danced

Ever so freely to

this one absolute frequency.

Beings of endless light,

Who had no strife,

Nor a body to touch,

No tears would be shed.

Maybe I had known

this place before;

How awfully I longed to

go back home....

Maybe their cold doesn’t hurt

Maybe their sun doesn’t boil

Maybe their sunset lasts longer

Maybe their oceans are calm

Maybe they aren’t lonely

Maybe they don’t have hearts at all

Maybe they all live happily

Maybe they remember how to smile

Maybe they have a place for me...

Lying in the grass

Feeling it tickle as my ankles.

I stare up at the multitude of stars in the night sky.

How vast the universe is.

How many other planets that must contain

Some sort of other life forms!

The idea! Oh, it makes you wonder

Doesn’t it?...

Here I lay on the surface of what we call Earth

The mountains, grass, and ocean is all I have know since birth

I wonder what life is like miles away in the Milky Way

I wonder if they live like us and our cheery ways

Every night I lie on the Earth’s blanket to spy

Spy on all the twinkling stars and the majesty the moon

Under the bright moonbeam I like to imagine

Imagine how my day would be

if i g...

The girl exhaled, her breath condensing in a faint puff as she gazed. She imagined the countless exoplanets tucked away in each pinpoint of light.

Perhaps of all the stars her naked eye could see, not a single one held more than a puddles’ worth of microorganisms. Perhaps of all the stars beyond her view, only one held life anywhere near as complex as that on her own.

Perhaps those people looke...

I’m sure it is paradise, but I am alone

Natural beauty, untouched

A day is far too long

Without another human soul to share it with

Wild animals roam free

Nothing to hurt me

But sinking loneliness

Just one hammock in the tree

Hummingbirds sing, sweet songs to each other

My laughter goes unheard

What life is this, if not to know another?

I would rather have been spared...

In the vast expanse of the cosmic sea,

Where distant stars twinkle, so far and free,

There lies a planet, unknown to our sight,

A world of wonders, bathed in celestial light.

Its atmosphere, a tapestry of hues,

With swirling clouds in vibrant blues,

A symphony of colors, dancing in the air,

A spectacle so enchanting, beyond compare.

On this distant planet, life takes a different form,

Evolved an...