Comforting comets
Keep bombarding the brain
Of this wide-eyed, open armed
beatnik child,
their impacts making as strong as tektite my spirit
For the impending day
Indefatigable ol’ Death summons us
To dance, dance, dance
eternity away –
Perhaps a two-step or a tango,
Trip-hoppin’ to the celestial disco.
He’ll be punctual as usual,
The ancient charioteer ushering
His steeds ablaze as a Balrog’s heart
towards us
As decrepitly we crawl from our earthly holes
Shivering, eyes stitched, blind as moles;
The stench of corpse beginning to loom
As e’er the more drawn we’re to our doom,
our doom.
But O I know Harmony in her grim guise’ll
Hum with the force of a gamma burst,
Opening our eclipsed eyes -
The dark mattered truth revealed -
Our Fate, a lifetime determined, sealed,
Foudroyant as the first sudden gasp of air
Resurfacing from a lake you thought for certain
In which you
Were to drown
As She alights her carriage,
A nimbus of Andromeda about Her hair;
Tresses of loving shadow and ray;
A smile as homely as the Milky Way;
One eye Venus, the other Mars,
And Earth the mad mind in the middle
In its magnificent syzygy, embracing us
in Her stelliferous fleece
Wove in angelic secrecy. & as soft with peace
As only a mother could, she’ll whispers to her
Un-borns of the beyond
For us to cruise the cosmic pond
Like one baby duckling at a time.
No more dancing shoez. Unshod soulz
To boogie in the ballroom of space sublime.
Seep into that deep sleep. Swim to the cynosure
Of all life’s mysteries solved, all sorrow resolved -
No reputations to keep. Nowhere tomorrow t’be –
Just be free… Then we’ll know true closure.