The Midnight Sky

there's something in the air tonight, something that seems different from previous nights.Not only is the air deathly still but the sky is crystal clear and stars that i haven't seen before outside my house (thanks to light pollution) are visible.The sky looks as if it was swallowing the whole world because everywhere I look I can see the dark sky surrounding me (if i ignore the street lights and city lights below). as I am currently laying sprawled out on the grass in my backyard staring up at the night sky while a burning fire crumbles into embers like the forgotten ashes in a distant world (Venus, "the evening star" has been compared to the closest thing to Hades)
I find pleasure and happiness in looking up and getting lost ing the midnight sky, playing connect the dots with the twinkling stars, planets, satellites, and occasional planes above. As I stare up into the vast and twinkling darkness I feel as thought I am painting and become lost in my mind, all my worries, troubles, all seem to get sucked up into the distance; it those rare moments of solitude where everything becomes quite, the body enters a trace like hypnotic state, you feel as if your slowly floating and drifting up into space. Allowing the sill air to fill me with a sense of great relief/escape from responsibility allowing it burns my problems to cinders much like the fire in front of me, and with the "burning" of my worries allows me to enter a state of awareness of my inner source my inner strength, my drive, my consciousness prior to the noise of thought It is in a way overwhelming to look up at something so enormous so vast and endless while myself being but a mere speck of dust upon the earth. Gradually I become aware that we are free.......restricted by our human limitations but free nonetheless. We living in the 21st centeury seem to perceive ourselves as the ruler of (in a microcosm) the world, of our own domain as well as those around us. In the hustle and bustle of everyday crazy life not many people seem to take time to gaze at the twinkling stars lighting up the midnight sky and to absorb and feel the wonder/mystery of the purpose/meaning of life, the humbling fact that we are but a small tiny speck amongst the vast never ending space, makes on ponder "What if?". What if we are not alone? What if there is another life? What if?
Personally every time I look into the sky, I wonder if there is another planet exactly like Earth. I wonder if there is another person just like me, doing the exact same thing I am doing at that very same moment.There could be someone out there looking right back into the sky at me thinking the exact same thoughts as I am.

I love the stillness, the feeling of solitude, the instant escape from the complications of my (our) lives the over crowding of information, going back to the realization of simplicity of nature, embracing the importance of the little things while I watch the fermenting chaos within these enormous heterogeneous masses whom embody trillions of atoms that are chaotically colliding, giving off the light known as these gorgeous twinkling stars

To me the midgnight sky embraces the idea that nature is serene, harsh, destructive, beautiful, serene, powerful, colorful, prosperous, full of secrets, energy, full of endless questions most having unharvested answers.