Dark Sky - Mícheál 'Moley' Ó Súilleabháin

[Larry Robinson]

Dark Sky

Stars are exquisite company, 
making you a heavenly host. 
The sky at night,
the dreamers’ mirror,
making frail notions
of death seem juvenile, 
and preposterous.

Stow away or 
captain’s mate, it
is too easy to deny 
the soft buffetings 
of life’s bow, breaking 
the waves of space 
and time.

Do the stars tell us to 
take our lives for granted? 
Or are we aggrandized by 
their scattered perfection?

Let us turn our lamps 
down low, preserving 
this divine horizon. 
This place to celebrate 
the glorious proof 
our suspicions gift us.

The pure privilege 
of not knowing, 
the volatile wisdom 
of letting.
The dark sky
is your life.

	- Mícheál 'Moley' Ó Súilleabháin