6 years, 5 months, 12 days

2024, Feb 05    

6 years, 5 months, 12 days
A grand journey set forth for adventure.
A voyage for sights that would chill to the bone.
To be an explorer of the unknown.

Yet from zenith to nadir,
Every possible horizon has already been known.
And I had no idea!

I’d be in charge of watching her cargo,
If only I had known,
I’d think it’d be luckier to be blown across Leo.

But God’s speed!
Every moment accommodates,
when you are first mate.

Heed fast!
Your life is for the ship, so don’t fail
or the captain will be on your tail.

… yet in the never ending bustle,
You’ll come across its graveyard,
and time will freeze.

The numbing silence of the cosmos will dampen even any rustle.
And the sites of old ship’s long scarred,
entails a fate worse than sailing the seven seas.

I hopped on the microphone:
“Hailing unknown vessel, this is Freighter-00G8“
“Come in unknown vessel, this is Freighter-00G8“
Yet no reply in this no go zone.

We stared for hours, and prepared for orders.
Finally approaching the brig; the ship’s pilot.
And without reason he whispers
“It’s pirates”

And the last thing he said to me,
“You know, a watched pot never boils”
Before we were hit with their laser coil.

And as the cabin depressurized,
There was no more struggle.
The air from my lungs fizzled,
and I finally saw that I could bubble.