Stars

The night was clear and cool, and I lay gazing at the stars, the fresh cut grass felt damp beneath my head Soon, through the darkness, I could see the glowing isobars that tie mankind to heaven, like gold thread I saw each light, just like each man, was beautiful and flawed and though they faded as the new day dawned, I'd seen in them, in us, in all, the boundless love of God and I no longer feared what lay beyond...