Within The Without

As shadows stretch to the east
Laying down the world for sleep
A turquoise sunset fades to ink
On diamond meadows spilled.

I dissolve in a dream
Fancying the universe let's me in
A million eyes, sometimes called stars
Pensively wink at me.

I've been where stars can't glide to
Have seen the universe from outside
With raptured sinking heart
Beheld it swaying among the alike.

The without-so delicate
Makes frightfully definite
What from within to a local mind
Had been so infinite.

Beyond cognition cast
Through space having carved its path
A beam of light on a mirror sparks
And dives to a speck of dust.

What's inside the naught?
I've seen those colourful inner worlds
A thing within will always be
For inner things, the without.

The within's thoroughness
Its diverse minuteness
Seems from without
In shade of sky
A paltry commonness.

The without-so delicate
Makes frightfully definite
What from within
To a local mind.