Do you listen in the silence?

Do you listen in the silence
And hear a thousand voices sing?
Can you listen to their melody,
Which from uncounted throats doth ring?

When you sit alone and quiet
Beneath the heaven’s arc
Have you ever heard them,
The voices in the dark?

When you gaze into a starry sky
Whose voices sound behind your eyes?
What secrets do those voices hold,
The voices of the starlit cold?

“We sing our song upon our light
That reaches you on starlit night.
Will you sing to us afar
And send your song on light of star?”

They sing these words behind my eyes
These and many more besides.
They sing of worlds consumed in flame
And planets which the ice doth claim.

They sing me tales of worlds where winds
Can scatter mountains like piles of tins.
A million voices in my mind
But how do I know which is mine?

Do you listen in the silence
And hear a thousand voices sing?
Dare you listen to their melody,
Which from uncounted throats doth ring?