S 2017 J2

Jumping over the jagged rocks of Jupiter's sixty-seventh moon
My soles are bleeding, but my soul continues chasing the memory

Maneuvering between boulder and ice
Irritating eyes to turn frost-bitten

Bitter wind whirling across my cheeks calling attention to the sky
Surrendering a quasar to quiet my noise and drown out darkness

Distant behemoths to haunt and torment
Terrestrial echoes of another life

Legs pumping violence since leaping across the volcanoes of Venus
Visions stream and seep into my subconscious, scratching the surface

Stars blind but ignite a fuse
Fueling the search for my story

Stored somewhere in the brainstem to throw my body off balance
Breathing hitches and heart rate halts, the race interrupted

Ions charging at one another
As the Greeks attacked Troy

Totally silenced for a mere moment in that grey galaxy sleeping
Soundly in the cold recesses as realization rocket-launches past neurons

Neon panic propels me to Neptune
Numbing nerves to prepare for judgment
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