Can’t Sleep Poem by LLM Mbatha

Somebody else would rather watch TV
Not I!
But why
Am I gazing at the night time sky
Like an ancient Egyptian
Wondering if that brilliant star
By the Milky Way
Could be another sun
With nine planets revolving
One of them, an earth
With inhabitants, an us! ?
Stardust and Spirit made,
Do they make war and love
The same as we
And then again I wonder
Just how many sober nights it took
The star gazing Egyptians
To figure out the 365day calender,
Is there more wisdom to be found
From above in a night like this…