A woman stands outside looking up at the night sky, and the stars she sees are the same ones she looked at as a child. What has changed is the way she sees them. The poem ends on her question: did they always look so hopeless? It's a quiet, unsettling thought, because it could mean two different things. Maybe the stars never changed and she is the one who has lost her sense of wonder. Or maybe she is now realizing that the hopelessness was there all along, and she just couldn't see it as a kid.
The speaker feels a mix of nostalgia and disappointment. The stars are a link to her younger self, but that link doesn't comfort her. The mood is lonely and reflective, with a slightly bleak edge. Notice the shift from "stood" to "wonders": the first is past tense, the second present, as if the question is still hanging over her. The title, which sounds jokey and modern, makes the sad ending feel even more unexpected.