AN EXTRATERRESTRIAL JAUNT

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You rode with me in a spacecraft

and together we flew

to the acme of the universe.

We passed through scintillating stars

and our bodies collided,

sending shivers to my spine.

Through the shooting star I saw

by the ice-glass window of this space vehicle,

I wished this journey wouldn't end.

We landed in the Sea of Tranquility

and hand in hand, we walked the moon.

wandering across the catena of bowl-shaped depressions.

Then we tried to get separated,

playing hide-and-seek

in the macula of the void.

I saw you in the core

twinkling, enveloped by

a corona of light.

Then it was totally dark.

A blackbody devoured all light.

Weightlessness brought me to the blackhole.

I tried to escape

from the possible singularity

of the collapsed core of this massive star.

And I was woken from my dreams

by the cataclysmic explosion

of the bitter truth:

Even with our geodesic distance,

we could be separated in a longer length

by the resolving power of a telescope.

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