Postcard 17

On a cosmic scale, size defines a body
What species of object you are is
Determined by the amount of
Mass you have managed to accrete
Is there enough there to make you round?
Are you small and rocky or large and gassy?
Have you passed the threshold of thermonuclear fusion?
Can we call you a Giant or are you a Dwarf?
But none of this matters from
Our vantage point, here
We are so far away that
Everything else is a tiny
Pinprick twinkle twinkle overhead
The rules are rendered irrelevent
When we look with our naked
Eyes and open our hearts
To the sky. All of it fills us
With awe. Every object, small or large,
Informs our understanding of infinity
We see its perfection and forget
The definitions and limitations