Lights of the Great Forge

They’re there. They’re out of reach.
They tell us so much. They don’t speak.

We count them, learn where they’ve been.
We can tell where they’ll go next,

How they are birthed, how their fires
Burst. How huge they are. How far.

We know lots of things to do
With them. They tell us so much,

But they don’t seem to have said
One word on what’s next for us.