gonna buy me a spaceship
powered by dark energy
take me to the outermost reaches
forever chasing infinity

losing myself in improbabilities
a googol light years out and still
caught in this gravity well, unmoved, unmoving
all the eons wasted in regret

and she sang to me once upon a distant dream
I wondered at the sweetness of her voice
though I lay still, tied down and unmoving
a doomed fly on a spider’s web
confounded by the looping weave of time and chance

do I remember, or do I dream?
do I hope or pray or deceive myself
and is anything I think of even real?

Lying beside her, less than a finger’s breadth apart I swear
fast accelerating, the gap
becoming a yawning chasm
my breath escapes into the merciless vacuum
igniting galaxies and superclusters in between
spawning light, and the flickering shadows that follow
and mesmerized as I raced towards infinity
and time’s arrow pointing to entropy

dark energy don’t fail me now