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Lost and Found

LOST   AND   FOUND

Our craft are but                                                        
Two dust specks to reach
Into trackless black void
Almost out of energy                                                                 
Almost out of hope, each
Directionless in the vacuous space
Where? Where are you?

Limitless loneliness to port
Endless emptiness to starboard
Below  the darkness of hell
Above only empty heavens.
No guide,  no pilot to show the way
To hope against hope.
Two specks of dust in the cosmos
Drifting endlessly.
No star to steer by
No sign ahead, no track behind
Each alone  and helpless
Where? Where are you?

God will not help it seems
Lost in this hell of emptiness.
Is that your signal light ahead of me 
A tiny speck in the far distance 
Fifty light years ahead -
Among all the stars,
Temporary beacons,
Some long dead, some only ghosts?
Where  are you? Where are you?

Closer and closer  -
Is it another false flickering light,
Another  illusion of  harbour?
A trick to wreck my craft?
Another maelstrom to sicken me?
Closer it comes, maybe….
This is no star, but a planet, 
A wanderer  like me
With a brighter, steadier light
Yes,  a signal of recognition
Found  against all the odds:
A smile,  a wave -
At last - it’s you.

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