THE OTHER SIDE OF SPACE

What if we should break

a greater barrier

move like light         and then

cast upon black sea of space

like pin-points search tri-zillion miles

of night’s glassglow moons

and reddust planets and distant suns

and never          voyaging there

find another race?

Will we     returning      once more adrift

upon this opal starship

sink back to death

and dead men’s worship

make gods for our unholy restless days?

Or might we then make peace

with our aloneness

and new-born and strangely strong

set heart and soul and sinew

on a course     sail outward bound

within our inner ways

and like a sleeve indrawn into itself

find that once lost:

the other side of space