Trading thoughts with ghosts
and words with aliens.
Thoughts in my head.
Voices out of my mind.
Slurs and epithets,
cultural distinctions.
For we all come from
different worlds.
Different minds,
differing opinions,
only leave a valley to explore.
The gap between us
shouldn’t fill with fear,
but it instead draws us inward,
outward and alive.
Aligned like planets.
Like stars in the sky.
Dismiss the gulfs between them
when it comes time.
The Earth shakes
and the oceans rise.,
We pause,
to say our last goodbyes.
Some of us lost to space,
the others lost to time,
but we’re still sitting here
watching it all go by.
DJR – 2023
