The Web Poetry Corner - Robert Cameron Hazelton - Satellite
Satellite
by
Robert Cameron Hazelton
A billion points of solar light
Invade my awakening mind.
Escape velocity has been achieved,
Leave all gravity behind.
Looking back at my blue world,
A sapphire in the midnight sea,
I’ve never felt so far from home-
It’s lonely, here at apogee.
Drifting through the vacuum/womb
Of silent weightlessness,
Developed well beyond the egg
Yet still quite helpless.
Shaped by elemental forces
That beggar the imagination,
Striving to reach the critical point
Of orbital habitation.
DEDICATED TO THE FIRST CREW OF THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION