I love outer space; all of its mystery and wonder. Whenever humanity peers out farther and farther, the universe gets bigger and bigger. I remember hearing about the Hubble Space Telescope taking a picture of the darkest part of the sky. The result from 2012's Hubble eXtreme Deep Field was 5000 new galaxies discovered. Not planets or stars... but galaxies. Outer space is also the place where our comprehension of physics and mathematics get completely wrecked. It's humbling.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubble_eXtreme_Deep_Field
If I recall correctly, this poem was written over two sittings and one revision. When you're really interested in something and try to write about it, I find oftentimes that the words come naturally. This was one of those occasions.
I woke up in the
middle of the night
And transformed into
a beam of light
I shot off into the
vastness of space
A hundred eighty six thousand miles per
second I raced
In a matter of
seconds I flew past the moon
The earth transformed
to a tiny speck of blue
I shot past the sun
in a matter of minutes
Saw the fusion first
hand and everything in it
I skipped past Jupiter,
Saturn and Neptune
They soon disappeared
like a pebble in a sand dune
It took years till I
reached another star in the distance
But a new concept of
time made it feel like an instant
I flew so fast I saw
the constellations change
I avoided black holes,
their event horizon’s range
I passed by
magnificent gamma ray bursts
And other unknown
phenomena of our universe
Nebulas, asteroids
and comets were sparse
When considering the
length of space at large
I eventually reached
the galaxies center
It was a massive
black hole, too dangerous to enter
I decided to travel
to the galaxies opposite side
I found new stars
hidden from earth’s eyes
Binary systems and
tertiary ones too
Sprinkled the
darkness through and through
I passed beyond the
reach of the Milky Way
Into an emptiness
where only darkness would stay
The nothingness
tested my sanity's reach
But I found Andromeda
before my mind found defeat
It was the nearest
galaxy and it will eventually collide
With the Milky Way
galaxy and all that’s inside
But for me it became
a haven of light
Of a billion more
stars and other wondrous sights
I continued to travel
for I wanted to see
If there was life out
there aside from you and me
I guess the
complexities on earth are quite scary
For I saw nothing
like it during my journey
I had no idea how far
I would go
How long I would
travel, I’ll never know
For years I seemingly
traveled the endless black
Wondering if I would
ever come back
I passed by stars
greater than the sun
Gaining in speed
after passing each one
The size of the
universe I could not comprehend
The wondrous sights,
they never seemed to end
Farther and farther I
continued to explore
There was one truth
that I could not ignore
I am but a speck of
dust in the grandest abode
Blown into the sky by
the wind unknown
