eight thousand galaxies mapped
to find our place in you
immeasurable heaven
omething just not possible to grasp
each mega-bit a nanobyte
speechless at the scale of it
branched, the veins of a leaf
this milky massif a speck
on a tip, one percent of one percent
One hundred and six thousand light years
to cross in your five hundred million
a local spill of milk
our grand four hundred billion stars
just one of one hundred billion
and more such clusters
so what of one small star
our multitude of minute lives
their immensity
A. H (30th July and 1st December 2021)
Astronomers Successfully Map 8,000 Galaxies and Make an Incredible Discovery — Curiosmos
Still want to work on it – especially as I’m not managing to be speechless which irritates me a bit