Many want to fly to space
To see the Earth
I want to see the earth
And feel the feeling
That borders do not
In reality exist
I want to feel
The one ness
That we are all
Earthlings
Regardless of how we breathe
Or bring in our young
I want to feel the thrashing
Of the rocket
Against my ribs
And rumble of the engines
In my heart
That carry me
At ten times speed of sound
Away from family and friends
And into the great Unknown.
I want to feel
The feeling
Of nothingness
On me
As I depart the pull
Of mother planet earth
I long to feel the longing
Of all my loved ones
For me
And me for them
I want to miss the feeling
Of sun upon my face
And water on my body
I want to feel the cravings
For a burrito
Hummus
And my mother’s
Olivie.
I want it all
But most of all
I want to look through hatch on the other side
The one facing away from earth
With all the stars
To see immensity of it before
And all around
I want to feel the smallness
Of planet earth
The largess of all the worlds
And suns
And lives that are out there beyond the milky way
I want to feel all that is there
The grandeur of all
That is possible not just on earth
But in the grand experiment
Of the created should it exist
To create the world so large and vast
That we cannot hope to feel it with our fingers
In a million billion lifetmes
But, for a brief moment,
We see it with a hundred million cells
Inside our coin sized eye
To feel the photons
Arrive from distant the past
Directly through the window
Of my spaceship pass
And entire me
To become a part of me
Through synapses in my brain
And make me a part
Of all that is
All that was
And all that ever will be
March 2020
