Rhyme For Some Reason

Infinity

They told me the sky was the limit

     But how could their words have been true?

          It took only force

          And a well-chosen course

     To sear through that fragile illusion of blue.

I quit the blue marble where I'd been marooned

     Plunged into a vast pitch-black sea

          Headlong in my flight

          No horizon in sight

     Forsaking the flagging grasp of gravity

I sailed past the moon like a streak through the void

     Passed Mars in a brilliant flash

          Sped on past the spheres

          As I reckoned light-years

     Blazed out of the Milky Way in a mad dash

I counted a million billion stars

     Then added a trillion more

          Defied time and space

          But could still reach a place

     I knew I had never encountered before

And onward I race with no thought of the past

     No shift in my trajectory

          When my journey ends

          More or less all depends

     On when I reach infinity.

09/17, revised 09/19