Ad Astra

Partly inspired by the film of the same title.

We breathe out love like a fragrance

Into the air, a trace by which we hope to be

Found, to be freed from our invisible

Cage where we are pinned like a faint

Flickering dot on a mighty tapestry of lights

 

Prisoners in orbit we are, spinning by like

Atoms of loneliness reaching out, unable

To unite, gliding through the silence of 

A dark void designed not to conduct sound

Lest it be loud with our pitiful sighs

 

And yet, we fix hopeful eyes at night’s

Mysterious dark garb, her star-freckled

Impassive face, and smile, seeing a future

In the glowing star-shaped flowers

Growing high in fate’s garden in the sky

 

Stars may collide due to a heavenly oversight

And as time passes, no one believes such a desert

Of dust as ours was once rich in color and sound

All is silent now as sadness plants black seeds of

Memories scarring the surface with a heavy plow

 

Reviews

[poetgurl]

I like this, i can feel the emotions in this write

[Laz K.]

Thank you!