Villanelle for stars

What did it take for the experience
Of seeing eye-to-eye the shining Moon?
And if it differed so why goes it thence?

We know the firmament had once been dense
Beyond the eye's conception in its swoon,
What did it take for the experience?

To see her golden beauty, the immense
Madonna in full cosmic plenilune;
Say, if it differed so why goes it thence?

Was human nature those days just as tense,
A grain of sand within the greater dune?
What did they take for their experience?

Were they preoccupied as I am since
I feel my self and worldview so jejune?
And if it differed so why went it thence?

Did all the stars above give them a sense,
Connection or a somehow secret tune?
What did it take for the experience,
And if it differed so why goes it thence?