Looking Up

as I stumble out of the truck, I look up

and I start thinking 

and I just can’t stop

as I gaze into the Milky Way

I can’t help but notice 

the overwhelmingness of it all 

I try to get others to see it,

the beautiful, 

terrifying,

incomprehensible

grandness of it all, 

but they can never see

the weight of it

pressing down,

with the weight of a thousand suns

onto me

if only they could take the time 

to just look up

they’d see what I see

and then they’d start thinking too