When the Sky Listens

Every night, I look at the sky and wonder — do we listen to the stars, or do they listen to us?

Long ago, poets believed that the universe responded to the human heart. Every wish, every prayer, every song floated upward and returned as light, wind, or silence.

In science, we aim our instruments toward the stars to hear their voices: radio waves, light curves, data — numbers that whisper across time. Yet, beneath those calculations, there’s still a quiet longing to understand why the universe speaks to us at all.

Sometimes I think of Mercury again — the messenger, the bridge between thought and light.
In my book Lumen Mercury, that same idea shines through: knowledge and emotion traveling together, searching for meaning.

A signal leaves the heart —
and the sky, vast and patient,
listens in silence.

The universe has always been our mirror. Every poem, every discovery, is a reflection of how deeply we wish to be heard — by each other, and by the stars themselves.

Volkaan Berkochi Author