• Signal Flares

    Plotting out trajectories
    Halley's Comet and Newton's Laws
    This orbit tells a different story.

    Despite all relativistic flaws,
    Every cycle only increases the distance.
    I know the attraction a black hole draws.

    Singularities offer no chance for gravitational resistance;
    I know there's no way this course will reverse.
    Yet I still shine on in suicidal persistence

    Sending up signal flares across the universe
    Tendrils of tenuous electromagnetic threads
    The only way to be heard across the vacuum you've traversed.

    Screaming in infrared,
    Lonely in aphelion's unconcern
    Burning up hydrogen, watching all my atoms shred

    Going supernova in hopes you will turn
    your telescope on me, lightyears after I burn.



    10/29-10/30/09