Solar System Life
Solar System Life
31.5.93.
by Lucy Hinton
Don’t strike yourself if the world disappoints you
For you are the centre and everything else
Is potential life, time, experience
You are the sun and you light your solar system life
The colour you like it
You are your master
Travelling faster than you thought you knew how
The past is what made you, the future is hope
But speed changes rhythms to beat only now
Music without time plays in my head
Like a point second dot,
Distant but moving yet still as the present
Echoing – off mood created boundaries
Pulsing incessantly with the energy
Of my brain like the beat of my heart
Keeping me sane,
Living my world, I will keep burning
Continue my learning
The pain and the joy making me grow
Farther and closer to where I will know
And when I get there my musical dot will disperse
And the concentrated energy and pain will die
And when that happens so will I
And all you’ll see of me will be my solar system life
Still glittering in the sky