k magazine F17

A Destination
Lucas Salameh
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KALEIDOSCOPE • Issue10
A trail of light carves through the night sky,
And then it is gone,
A journey of lifetimes,
Beginning when all things began,
A rock preserved in its youth,
Drifts through time and space,
Sightless it moves by the pull of the gap,
Searching for a destination,
Any spot outside the emptiness,
Beyond the bounds of nothing,
Moving towards but never closer,
To these distant points of worth and purpose,
Thrown forth by anonymous hands,
Born unable to stop,
As it glides and rolls through the universe,
Travelling forever,
Sensing the warmth of its possibilities,
Feeling their light,
Unopposed,
Only distance,
Only time,
Unweather, untouched,
Since the chisel cut the cord,
A single purity alone in a land,
Filled with others to the edge of eternity,
All searching, all wandering,
To find that which makes them whole,
The substance in the void,
The rarity of their destined location,
Held only by the miracles of chance,
As forever they fly through the endless night,
Time has no meaning to a traveller such as this,
Seconds,
Minutes,
Years,
Millenia,
All blending together with the fluidity of space,
Happening simultaneously,
And not at all,
The journey then becomes like the land it spans,
Infinite,
Expanding,