BY RAY D. BRADBURY
Space—thy boundaries are
Time and time alone.
No earth-born rocket
,seedling skyward sown
,Will ever reach your cold
,infinite end
,This power is not Man's to
build or send.
Great deities laugh down,
venting their mirth,
At struggling bipeds on
a cloud-wrapped Earth,
Chained solid on a war-swept,
waning globe,
For FATE, who witnesses,
to pry and probe.
BUT LIST! One weapon have
I stronger yet!
Prepare Infinity! And
Gods regret!
Thought, quick as light,
shall pierce the veil,
To reach the lost beginnings
Holy Grail.
Across the sullen void on
soundless trail,
Where new spawned suns and
chilling planets wail,
One thought shall travel
midst the gods' playthings,
Past cindered globes where
choking flame still sings.
No wall of force yet have ye
firmly wrought,
That chains the supreme
strength of purest thought.
Unleashed, without a body's
slacking hold,
Thought leaves the ancient
Earth behind to mold.
And when the galaxies have
heeded DEATH,
And welcomed lastly SPACE'S
poisoned breath,
Still shall thought travel
as an arrow flown.
SPACE—thy boundaries are
TIME——AND TIME ALONE!
YOU ARE READING
FUTURIA FANTASIA
Science FictionFUTURIA FANTASIA was a science fiction fanzine published by Ray Bradbury (author of Fahrenheit 451 and The Martian Chronicles) shortly after he graduated from high school. He borrowed $90 to publish it and it would be the first publication of a frui...
