Lanterns in the Endless Dark

I know there is life around other stars as well.

They say our sun’s a single spark,
Among a billion in the dark
A golden lantern softly spun,
Inside the cosmos - only one

And yet beyond our little sky,
Where silent silver comets fly
There blaze more fires than minds can name,
Each burning with its ancient flame

So how could we, on this small sphere,
Believe that only life lives here?
That all the wonder ever grown,
Was planted solely for our own?

Perhaps beneath some sapphire rain,
A child looks up and thinks the same
Perhaps through crimson fields of light,
Strange flowers fold themselves at night

Perhaps some distant ocean glows,
Where no familiar creature knows
The names we gave to earth and sea,
Yet still they love. Yet still they dream.

The universe feels far too wide,
For life to bloom one single time
Too full of music, dust, and chance,
For only us to learn the dance

And maybe every shining star,
Holds someone asking who we are 
A quiet soul with hopeful eyes,
Beneath their own enormous skies

Oh, what a lovely thing to be:
Not lonely in eternity
But one small verse the cosmos sings,
Among unending living things

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