Pondering a Distant, Ancient Light
by Lloyd Michael Lohr and M.S. Raper
I sit alone upon an asteroid and ponder the
many days events,
my drill is silent, for the silver ore can wait,
I long for a gentle breeze and the green fields of Earth,
but all I see are the pinpoint sparkles of distant, ancient
light,
a multitude of solar cardinal points before me,
pointing the way to the unknown,
And they remind me that I am so far from my home,
Out there somewhere,
another star is born,
another particle of frozen matter is deposited on a barren world by
the solar wind,
Out there somewhere,
another life form crawls from the primordial slime,
and begins to speak the sounds of social discourse,
Out there somewhere,
the truth lurks in the ethereal deserts of dark matter,
growing cold from the lack of remembrance,
Out there somewhere,
a thousand eclipses dance behind an endless penumbra of stardust,
and their shadows form little Mandelbrot patterns in my
dreams,
Out there somewhere,
another entity,
not unlike myself,
ponders the secrets of the distant stars.
Poem copyright © 1998-99 by Lloyd Michael Lohr <lohrl@marietta.edu> and M.S. Raper <mraper@ee.net>
Illustration copyright © 1998-99 by Kalazar <kalazar@earthlink.net>
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