Looking up at the stars, I know quite well
That, for all they care, I can go to hell.
But on earth indifference is the least
We have to fear from man or beast.
How should we like it were the stars to burn
With a passion for us we could not return?
If equal affection cannot be,
Let the more loving one be me.
Admirer as I think I am
Of stars that do not give a damn.
I cannot, now I see them, say
I missed one terribly all day.
Were the stars to disappear or die
I should learn to look at an empty sky
And feel it's total darkness sublime,
Though this might take me a little time.
- W.H. Auden
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