482 Trillion Miles
My eyes are not what they once were, but
I can see you clearly whooshing from
your mother's womb, sluiced between thighs
the grunts, shouts and cries reverberating
eyes closed, arms slightly waving hello
or gesticulating indignation awakened
as life begins with cries of disbelief
already the first threshold crossed
suckled to your mother, pretty as she was
cradled into household tradition and politics
you tottered and ran and bruised and grew
your parents doting and snapping pictures
thirty trillion miles out, you tottered to a
more formal cultivation of ideas and friends
socialization always a hard lesson for some
you had your share of failings and gold stars
then from seemingly nowhere, a smiled soul
appeared before you and kissed your disbelief
like the earlier toddlers first tentative steps
you pulled into gravity's relationship unawares
ignorance doesn't belie love's true desire
and life at the speed of light still shines
as milestones and markers come and go
and marriage's prism splits into all colors
some quarks, apparently from your joining,
burst out into their own space, unknown matters
yet clearly yours...something comes of nothing
what can you add to this creation...the creation
you split like nuclear fission's lost proton
careened off at around two hundred and ten
to find black holes of your own to fall into
and come out into alternate universes of life
that new alternate, smoothed around two fifty,
looked unlike the universe you knew and yet
in time you see it's the same space turned
inside out, like a T-shirt, still comfortable
four hundred trillion out you walked away tired
and retired from all your tangent demanded
somewhere out here the Nebula Amygdala looms
glowing, clouded, radiant with conception
it seems life's friction slows light out here
thoughts travel back, though it's slow going
near the edge of my space, I turn to see you
but my eyes are not what they once were.
© Goode Guy 2011-05-28
482,047,280,601,006 to be more precise
Copyright © Goode Guy | Year Posted 2011
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