Challenge - Day 27

Wow! After today, we'll be a mere three days from the end of this challenge. Today is a two for Tuesday prompt, so you've got two options:

1. Write a hopeful poem.
2. Write a hopeless poem.


















Starstuff


It is a rip tide
The harder you swim
the further out you get

The longer you live
the more you don't know

The finer the telescope
the more innumerable the innumerable

Would it make you feel better to find
once and for all, the deep field
was just a dancing membrame,
- film on some colassal eye

No.

Only animal to sleep on our backs
to gaze into the speckled path of infinity
and in that sure, ridiculous scale of
unquantifiable indifference

note that seeing

breathing and seeing
laying and talking
or silently seeing and breathing
touched by the wind
we are promised,

forever and ever,
forever and ever,
forever and ever,

no answer
- ever

and this is hope
- which is also hard to understand.