Spheres Of Another Chance
(italic lines from Riley Martin)
A few of us might just wiggle out from Armageddon
on Titan rocketships as large as skyscrapers
Set for suns which are about as far as a guess
Ebbing it out like a haggler,
costing us a few more pennies of promised existence
or just another chance gone from this dissolving sphere
When this world expires
like some rotted meat left in the summer heat
We are the plight sprayed with desperate repellents
which kill nothing and retreat back into the blackness
further than our minds will handle
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Many suns have lived and died.
Godspeed at liftoff for this hard-bitten humanity
One way or the other YOU will live on.
The momentum will carry us away,
whatever is left of the Earth, every bit, stored only in crates
Even if you have to float as an isotope
in the vastness of space.
Every ships’ name reads “INHUMANE” on the hulls
Or show up on some other Jurassic ocean.
Emancipated, savvy & thankful
Once again you will walk.
Etching modern saviors along the insides of caves
And hopefully be as lovely as you are now.
With neighbors coexisting in breathable places never imagined
As I smooth down the avenue in my Chevy to pick you up.
Nestled in ignorance, peering in the celebration of boundless sins -
fathom upon fathoms only to betray again in endless space