and as I saw myself where I lay quite still, just barely
breathing
I began to leave in peaceful radiations
rising up, I separate, and leave a trail of gently streaming
images
passing straight through the picture window as though it is
not there
rising freely, tucking backward, a back dive arching upward
arms spread quite wide and I’m trailing, a rainbow colored
mist
moving onward, climbing upward at a steeper angle, the
foothills fall away
and from a spot between my eyes, an infinite image is unwound
much higher now, but not too far off, the mountainous divide
comes into view
so very free and beyond being calm, evaporating in the
contrail of my soul
heading West and ever higher my density decreases
in somersaults and laid out back flips, an entire journey in
an instant
and then, high enough at once, I see the curve of our
miraculous atmosphere
at last so free with arms outspread, it is escape velocity
for me
moving cross the moon's lovely face a bright blue planet
shines far below
then on around to the dark side to slingshot away with even
greater speed
and faster now, cruising openly with the photons from the
sun
leave the friendly ecliptic behind to get a feeling for the
void
and in four short years my soul can visit nearby Proxima
Centauri
but
at this speed time passes so very slowly that I am aged but very little
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