I pull tight the faded thin fibers <br />of substandard issue flight jackets <br />with patched on corporate branding <br />claiming my body and soul as their <br />possession <br />even as we drift millions of miles <br />from the disconnected designs <br />of Terran pillagers <br />making me a big bang marauding <br />martyr to their flaws and affects <br />Outer space encapsulates <br />intensified loneliness in a <br />soulless void sprawling <br />in all directions <br />that overwhelms with piercing <br />frigidness <br />Huddled and shivering I stare <br />longingly through thick shielded glass <br />at the blurred nebula <br />of our home world stars <br />Drifting steadily away with each <br />passing second <br />as lurching solar sails harness <br />precarious radioactive winds <br />I navigate the unforgiving treachery of <br />these dizzying supernova fathoms <br />with no hint of fear crossing <br />my face <br />But secretly I fear miscalculated <br />wandering into theoretical curves <br />of space <br />where time distorts and perception becomes <br />a cosmic joke as black hole years <br />go by in minutes <br />Haunted by the dark matter <br />of our angry last words to each other <br />forever scattered unresolved <br />across starlit purgatory<br /><br />Charles Darkly<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-love-poem-for-the-vastness-of-space/
