Thought Exercise Outside in Cloudy Small Hours with Just One Visible Star

If there were one star,
Only one nearby,
In a clear night sky

Far from city lights—
If the star system
Your world spun around

Were so far away
From its galaxy
Nothing but smudges

Of distant clusters
And galaxies shone
Beside that one star,

Nothing else altered—
Your planets, comets,
Whole solar system

The same, but only
One actual star
Shining, like a weak

And boring planet
Rotating through its
Pure groove, imagine

What mythology
Might have cooked up then.
Don’t bother. You can’t.