Orbital

part 4
 

Just
as consciousness
may become extinct
in defining what it is,

You
may fly through space
equally invisible
in the blanket of time
which wraps
a journey, from beginning to end.

Some
other force
propels you forth
where gravity becomes an absent wind.

Suspending
in thought and deed,
inspired or distraught
at the first glimpse
of the earth you leave.

Fear
of heights,
where there is nowhere to fall,
with gravity a distant memory,
a foreign language
of its own
going up and down.

You are,
after all
an amalgam of micro-organisms,
an enigma of composite structure
a pin ball
sling-shotting home or away,
sporting with science and adventure

Secretly
paying homage to birth.
 

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