Iron Balloons Concrete Skies - Part 1
Iron Balloons Concrete Skies
(PART 1)
Florescent plants fill up the planet in green light
The gigantic world found us before we found it
Colliding, taking our ship by tonnage to the surface vast and wide
Strong gravity powered by shear mass that dragged us down
Ten billion light years from our home, simply to explore
Out there to investigate the void
Memory succumbed by encumbrances of weight
Crushed thoughts by pressure grave embraced
The crew senses loads intense, alien in nature
Landscapes fade into black open space
Cast against a backdrop dotted, twinkling white
So far away the tiny lights go out of sight still fixed in place
No sun or moon to fill in the surrounding emptiness
Space explorers hover in the artificial rocket light
Release submersible submarines in dark
To reach the surface of the alien sea
Night springs eternal heavy on the shore
Trees of liquid mass punctuate the distances
Tall on horizons belly swaying pink with fluids
Yellow translucent branches dip into the atmosphere
Touched sticky, viscous, stretched to their limits
Limbs distorted long in elasticity bounce back to shape
Laws of nature break from too much weight
As strong and thick as this planet seems to be created
Light does not escape from black hole pressure
Planets pull apart one segment at a time to their own fate
Infinity looks on a foreign veranda strange
Wide visions on the vista compromised
As far as the eye can see
Fathomed, reflected on, in the absence of dusk and dawns
On enormous lands looking gigantic on the cosmic storms
On stars born that stay alive as best they can
Cast against a black backdrop far away
Dotted, twinkling white
So far away the tiny lights go on into forever faded
Soft buttered views below the solid alien ocean emerge
Clouded sights of sinking submarines appear
Permitted to be discovered by visitors but not touched
(Part 2 of this poem follows on next post)
Copyright © Earl Schumacker | Year Posted 2016
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