Who Dare To Name The Stars Poem by Gabrielle Ciarann Roniyah Baer

Who dare to name the stars are we:
wanderers
in a darker than wine-dark sea
sailors
on silver winged craft
creatures
of a new formed destiny.

For us
the jewel-stars become
numbers to awe the mind,
sirens to lure the heart,
suns to light the myriad worlds.

To us
those diamond myriads are
brother beings, aswim in space,
crystalline constants, changeless as Time,
alien ancients, alive with Fire

Their cold brilliance
steels our will, stirs our dreams,
lights our eyes.

We, who sail their black velvet tides,
who search their multi-hued shores,
We
who dare to name the stars.


written in 1978