Our Place Between The Stars

There’s a quiet in the dark between the light Where the stars don’t speak, but shift in time I trace their changes like a hidden code Fading in ways we may never know Some burn steady like a borrowed flame Some flicker softly, never quite the same A pulse of distance in a silent sky A language written where the reasons hide And I wonder if they’re breaking down Or just breathing in a wider ground If every dimming holds a deeper phase Unseen by eyes that crave a constant blaze We measure light in passing frames But never hold it while it changes shape Are we the same in borrowed time Just shifting forms we can’t define So where are we between the stars tonight In the spaces where they lose their light Are we the flicker or the steady glow Or something deeper we don’t yet know If all we are is turning through the dark Tracing echoes of a distant spark Then maybe meaning isn’t where we stand But how we fade and rise again I read the sky like an open mind Every change leaves a question behind A sudden dim or a silent flare Like something shifts, but nothing declares Maybe distance bends what we perceive Or time distorts what we believe A million years inside a glance We call it chance, but never understand We name the patterns, draw the lines But lose the truth between the signs If light can wander, drift and stray What makes us think we’re fixed in place So where are we between the stars tonight In the rise and fall of borrowed light Are we the question or the afterglow Or just the distance left to know If all we are is motion in the dark Brief illuminations of a spark Then maybe purpose isn’t something planned But something we don’t understand What if the dark is not the end But space for light to bend again What if the fading isn’t loss But part of how it carries on And every shift we fear to see Is just a wider symmetry A pattern far beyond our sight Still holding us within its light So here we are between the stars tonight Not defined by dark or light Every flicker, every unseen phase Is part of how we find our place If we are small against it all Still we answer when it calls Not just drifting in the span But learning who and where we am There’s a quiet in the dark between the light And somehow we are part of it tonight