Astronautic Dream

From the nest of newness and modern discovery Materials that proclaim a new technology It is only diamond, now nano-thin, beyond fire's Wrath, and winter's whisper of cold desire The thing nothing can change or destroy, at last A turtle dome equipped that into space will blast Dilated at rest, infinitesimal in motion's swift Transition without resistance, or drag, the lift Spontaneous reaction from each part to part And I the hologram ... captain and console chart Ready to cross the wormhole of galaxies, light Like a static comet, and time eclipsed with delight Did ever Ezekiel saw such a beast, or dream wake Upon bright Da Vinci's brain, or NASA's genius make Such craft so self contained, a city without man Where loneliness ends before its thought began For only holograms are carried there into space To chart the new frontier of the human race And we beholding ourselves in glory, by beholding Change, and meet and merge the singular becoming Through the spiral back before time began or space Did all our memory of eternity so inefficiently erased Each diamond quark a colony of self supporting strings The little ship of light that man's immortality brings.