Butterfly Effect
With weary frankness I lean into
Evenings diffident shadows,
Wavering hues, grays and blues
Peering between the cloistered stars:
Endless dream I forgot how to navigate
Encompassing moments built by tidal movements
And sudden divisions between orbital shells
Inertial havoc starts the blood rushing
The world's a quagmire of uninhabited space
With lonely islands of pulsating matter
Suns unnumbered, rippling the waves collapse
Take all my heartbeats too, that as I languish,
The resonance might start another avalanche
The fiery, seeding vacuum of dawns early light,
That old magician's hat trick.
But be merciful to me, centrifugal womb of time;
Both the product and the witness
The sum of the totality only here, only this, only now-
This forever world, always just on the brink
Of breaking into a hundred thousand new worlds,
From insignificance multiplied
Far beyond any meaningful purpose:
For nobody controls even one solitary particle down here.
Your words are pure raw art. The journeys you give us are amazing.
Awesome work - - the thing zings into the ether and leaves the reader dizzy with the ride.... excellent.
Another Heterodynemind masterpiece, I agree with Kerry you take your readers to a new level in outer space and leave them thinking....
Interesting turn of the "lightness" of a butterfly used to describe a "heavy" concept about the nature of the world. Terrific!
Every beautifully crafted line lifts the reader to a mystical space beyond the mundane - superb!
Wow! This is simply superb. If I had to name one factor that I liked the most in your poetry, it would be your ability to make us think outside the box. Your words have taken me beyond this solar system today.
Profound write... classic piece!