Saniyah

English

10 April, 21:00

What is the theme of this poem?:

The city is full of streetlights, stoplights, floodlights

making it hard to see the stars

But Ben and Louie are out this summer night at ten pm

in front of their apartment building, peering up at the sky anyway.

Ben asks if that's the constellation Orion hovering over there just

above that billboard

Louie shrugs because he doesn't know for sure

He asks how many light-years to the edge of the universe

and what's beyond the edge when you get there

if you could get there (which you probably can't but if you could)

Ben says he doesn't know for sure either

It's a vast place, the universe, but what's beyond it must be vaster still

And they know they should go inside and get ready for bed

but it's too wonderful out here below the faint glow of the stars

and they just can't