Intergalactic Road Trip
An original science fiction poem
Scientists will coldly inform you it is impossible to travel faster than the speed of light. Like cantankerous interstellar cops, they breathlessly enforce this speed limit and smack down the dreamers who dare to dream.
Dreams cannot be stopped forever.
Discovery charts new roads. What seemed like impossible fantasies a century ago are now as common as bread and butter in our time. The thought of even finding new planets outside our solar system was dismissed as impossible during my childhood. Now new exoplanets are detected every day.
Will the rising generations reach other planets inhabited by intelligent life? The odds say someone will crack the code sooner rather than later.
My newest poem imagines that first journey beyond our solar system …
Dropping like a puck. Hitting the sticks. Barreling down smooth ice. Moving beyond light speed. Blink and you miss. Hidden signposts. Marking an obscure road. Limitless signs and wonders. Natural kaleidoscope for curious wandering eyes. First star shooting past. Make another wish. Second star to the right. Morning lurks ahead. Running free like a dog shedding my leash. A new world without fences.
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