Among us there are those with the will
to take flight in the depths of unknown, in order to know,
the draw to gnosis and know what is beneath and beyond
the want to witness, to be the first to go,
the will to roam where no one has been to behold marvels
Yearning to soar amid images based in calculations
and theoretical algorithms,
there are those whose souls show that they will go
and grow to sail the unseen seas.
In everybody there is a bit of such wanderlust,
But only the astrophysicists
recall the infinity of laying in the night grass and letting the light of antiquity at last
come to its end of its million year path into childhood visions of worlds and wonderments
Praise to the mathematical mazes
made for methodical masters to maneuver
by birthright, daydream, and dedication
only a handful ever know
how far we have come to here
where there is so much farther to go.
Praise to the astrophysicists
who commit the dynamics of nature into their common thought
fill their plate with the dance of gravity over light years
and unlock the abyss in a lineage of giants upon giants
defiance of the airless silence between them
and the glorious unseen.
Praise to
They, who bridge the emptiness.