The Woes of a Star Gazer

I searched the sky for those countless stars

That once adorned the night sky

Millions of those sparkling wonders

Open to the naked eye.

I am a star gazer

And I stare at the sky so blue

For this I am a fool

And I have a message for you.

Those stars, the residents of the sky

Hang out from an inky blue dome

As their neighbours try to reach out to them

The ones who call Earth their home

But now they remain hidden

With a handful rarely in sight

Masked by dense smokescreens

And outdone by the city lights

 And now it gets only worse

With nights that look like days

Those twinkling stars so hard to see

As if they were spirited away.

But they are very much there

We just have to clear the haze

And dim a little those city lights

And resume our star gaze

 For now also the visible moon

Searches the night sky

For her companions who

Beyond our ignorance lie

But it is a problem difficult to solve

And it continually grows

Along with it increases

A star-gazer’s woes