Glimpse

The fires of the night sky fade, consumed by the emerging rays of light, as the quiet solitude beneath the stars is lifted and the sky is set ablaze by the colors of the rising din as the day awakens;

The light is blinding;

The stars are gone. 

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Faded;

Clouded;

A wilting waning glimmer;

Nearing evanescence:

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To travel beyond the zenith,

To seek beyond the sky,

To glimpse beyond the daunting, blinding light:

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astro/

/naut

"astronaut."

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A sailor of the stars.