Day 5

Day 5

Eventually

We came to a chasm dark and wide

And drifted in silence through endless anemones

In shallow dreams

Life was beginning to take a shape

Water was warm as it hastened our enemies

This kind of world will start a little colony

This kind of earth will eat a little energy

This kind of thing needs a little secrecy

After thousands of years

Our priests have predicted you would come

You with your death that appears in no photograph

You watched the night sky

We bickered like fools amongst ourselves

We sought protection in artificial youth

This kind of world will start a little colony

This kind of earth will eat a little energy

This kind of thing needs a little secrecy

This kind of thing needs a little secrecy

This kind of thing needs a little secrecy

This kind of thing needs a little secrecy

In a sickening jump

I fell through the surface of my life

And I was cut back by the hollow comradery

The planet was still

Nothing moved as it slept in space

I pulled on my suit and exited quietly