That asteroid!

a free verse poem on what an asteroid feels as it traverses on…

i sprung out of those remnants, those shattered remnants, born, born out of the sun’s solar nebula, and kept floating into the milky way, passing through comets, planets and black holes, with a strange little sadness of never, ever becoming, a planet!

as some cosmic wind, imaginary, pushed me on and on, i glide by this strange new planet, tis’ green, tis’ white, tis’ blue, an amalgamation of a multitude of colors i have never, ever imagined, tis’ so different from anything i have ever seen, i wished for a second if i could take a dip into its surface, permanently, seeping in all the newness it can offer me, a mad wanderer of the space, searching for a home, since eternity!

but i grazed, almost grazed its surface,

caressing the skin like a sudden kiss, breathing in a mouthful of its atmosphere, seeing so many organisms bubbling around, filling my heart with all the warmth, offered, in that momentary momentariness, i had to pass on, newer destinations to conquer, newer spaces to seek, newer entities to endure,

but, with an everlasting memory of this planet, so contrasting, so unique!

Thank you so much, Dr Mehmet Yildiz and all the editors at Illumination for sheltering so many of my stuff, here.