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When we gaze up at a starry sky…stars with a variety of names…

the distance between the stars and us…makes all stars look the same.

But that doesn’t stop us from letting out a contented silent sigh

when we marvel at their beauty as they shine across the sky.

Most stars are made of hydrogen and helium…

they form their core…their crust…

with trace amounts of carbon, calcium, nitrogen and iron

which the astronomers and poets call stardust.

It’s interesting to note…even though they spend most of their time

with distant planets …like Jupiter and Mars…

when it comes to our entire universe…we are children of the stars. 

Because we are mostly made of stardust  

let me astronomically explain:

There is calcium in our bones…iron in our veins

carbon in our souls and nitrogen in our brains.

In fact an astute astronomer might be happy to proclaim…

how we’re are all stars upon this earth…with a variety of names.

Which makes me wonder…

Perhaps there is some meaning…in how we’ve found a way…

to see all the stars as beautiful….when we gaze at them from far away…

Perhaps the problem lies in these human eyes of ours.

Perhaps we look too closely at all the children of the stars.

Perhaps the best way to view us is to take a step back…

to where we don’t see our many differences…in our colors, shapes and names…

far enough away…to where we all look the same….

Far enough so, when we view each other…across this world of ours…

we only see the beauty in all the children of the stars.