Colors of my thoughts

Yesterday I experienced a moonlit night in the proper sense. I reside in the middle east, so stars and proper darkness is something we never have around us. There were days on end when I would look out my window and wonder what a star-filled night sky really looked like. “Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean,  Tears from the depths of some divine despair Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes,  In looking on the happy autumn fields,  And thinking of the days that are no more.”  ―  Alfred Lord Tennyson A couple of years ago, there was a mention of shooting stars which could be seen ona certain date. So my husband and I left for what seemed like an eternity somewhere close to the border of Saudi Arabia I guess. There were a few scattered camps around and after a certain distance, the complete absence of street lights and then total darkness. We both were just shocked, yes shocked is the word, coz I had never seen these man...