A woman standing on a beach with a large spiral in the sky

Our truth is painted across the sky In our reflection we learn to fly No hand to hold us No one to save us from tomorrow Sailing away, beyond the reach of anyone Far beyond the dreams of everyone No light to follow A shot in the dark Does anybody know? Sailing away, beyond the reach of anyone Far beyond the dreams of everyone High from the heavens I can't see the pain Does anybody care? Think for a moment of all the lives Stripped of their essence before their time We stand to conquer But is there nothing left tomorrow? I'm sailing away, beyond the reach of anyone Far beyond the dreams of everyone There's no light to follow A shot in the dark Does anybody know? Sailing away, beyond the reach of anyone Far beyond the dreams of everyone High from the heavens I can't see the pain Does anybody care? "We have one collective hope: the Earth And yet, uncounted people remain hopeless, famine and calamity abound Sufferers curl themselves into the arms of war people kill and get killed in the name of someone else's concept of God Do we admit that our thoughts and behaviors spring from a belief that the world revolves around us? Each fabricated conflict, self-murdering bomb vanished airplane, every fictionalized dictator, biased or partisan, and wayward son are part of the curtains of society's racial, ethnic, religious, national, and cultural conflicts and you find the human ego turning the knobs and pulling the levers When I track the orbits of asteroids, comets, and planets each one a pirouetting dancer in a cosmic ballet, choreographed by the forces of gravity I see beyond the plight of humans. I see a universe ever-expanding, with its galaxies embedded within the ever-stretching four-dimensional fabric of space and time However big our world is, our hearts, our minds, our outsize atlases, the universe is even bigger There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on the world's beaches more stars in the universe than seconds of time that have passed since Earth f