The
Milky Way
In fact a projection of the Milky Way
in the Hayden Planetarium in New York.
The projector is the most advanced in the
world. It displays all of the
stars that are visible with the naked eye.
It displays over 80 objects that are too
dim to see with the eye, just to be as accurate as it can be.
For too long I have been in one city or another.
It has been some years since I have seen
the Milky Way on a good dark night.
In the planetarium they tell you what you are about to see,
A half baked introduction narrated by Tom Hanks, but then
there is a moment of darkness, a moment of silence,
and the Universe is hanging there, in front of your eyes.
The multicoloured stars surround you. You can reach out,
almost touch it.
It reawakens the child in you, for a moment you
are just filled with wonder and as i breathed it in a felt
the tear run down my cheek.