A Spacer's Tale

by Bruce Boston

Bound by the pull of gravity
where lives and empires fail,
on a planet rife with savagery,
where sticks and stones prevail,

you may awaken to a certainty
that is like no other kind,
the force of its symmetry
resounding through your mind.

All of you and all of me
and others far from fine,
can polish stones to entropy
and even make them shine.

Beyond the pull of gravity
where imagination sails,
on a planet rich in majesty,
you can live a spacer's tale.

Appeared in Contemporary Rhyme