STARS WERE NOT MADE

Stars were not made

For astronomers

But for poets and lovers,

For the scientist can only

Quantify and qualify,

That which already exists,

Both remaining constant,

But, poets and lovers,

Look at stars and see,

So many things which

Might have been and

Might yet be, both,

By this artistic interaction

Altering the other,

And through lover and poet,

This world beneath the stars.

• Donovan Baldwin