Speeding Light

To frolic upon a passage of speeding light Garnered by a writhing soul Enslaved by time, but not space Censored by the night’s dark confines — its plight Among the vanquished, illuminated only by a golden dream All solace sought within the boundaries of justice postponed To the light of a new day Synthesized, absorbed by constant yearning Asymptomatic to any reference or reflection of its own myth Momentarily freed before frozen in expectation Before darkness falls again Invariably To follow the lightness into the realms of fear, folly, and back, to felicity Captured — entangled — recalibrated — sacrificed Taught anew — seasoned — as if sprinkled with angel dust Tuned and reinforced Prophecy without forewarning A reflection only of itself As it has always been But never born And is… To leave but also leave questions Under the serendipitous moon In its own amphitheater An unintelligent universe A rock Outperforming each task of intelligence Cosmology, rocketry Quantum, physics: all computations bound in its unravelling Afflicted by the atrophy of its own guise To our gaze And the summation that size matters