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Bridges & BlackWholes

Errant Echoes from Earth

By We the PPULPublished 9 months ago 3 min read
A long time ahead ...

Shuttle thru deep space radio signal scattered.

They just got a message pi-picked it up on the scanners,

be-been trying to get in contact with the earth ship,

feeling hopeful sonar radar lettin off a blue blip

of interest "There! Something floating in the distance!

If we switch to light speed, be there in an instant.”

Their instinct? Existent though it might be final mission,

“Listen, running low on fuel!”

“Lieutenant, get us in position!"

“On it!”

“Sergeant! Set the chargers full. Power up the engines!”

“Operator. Play the message once it's undergone decryption.”

They listened, it froze up.

Captain askin’, "Whats the hol’ up?"

“Inter-fe-fe-ference from radiation sources solar … Communications cut.”

“Broadcast over?”

Captain read the close caption now projected on controller.

Anyone ya out there? Heed the warning.

Total war with Terra Firma led to global warming.

Resurgence, Atlantic and Pacific Ocean mergin’,

even desert overburdened forest been deserted.

No escaping this. Coast drowned in tidal waves,

London bridge ain't fallin' down, river Thames

rose another 8 feet,

or whatever measurements you know to speak

hungry cannibal city dwellers walkin' kill a' meat (kilo-mete).

Trail cloud chemicals caught em off guard.

Heavy metals on the ground, heard the herds starved,

never seen buffalo,

soldier die hard for the bank roll, left dying crying "why god?!"

A+originals alienated,

they ain't waitin on no angel, no saints, or no alien-nations,

then watched in disgust, now none to discuss,

cause karma came round, and around, like a discus,

come around, fuck around, loving Miss Lust,

but what the fucks the point of legacy, if nothin' round to miss us?

Captain whispered to himself,

"what the fucks the point of legacy if nothin' round to miss us?"

Must've been the loudest silence that they ever heard...

Death is guaranteed no matter where they turn...

"Plot the course. We’re long past the point of no return!"

Received another message soon as hyper engines afterburned...

EYE am at the border of bridges and blackwholes.

Back, back, and forth, and forth

(((Back, back, and forth, and forth)))

Back and forth forever we go!

(Back and forth forever we go!)

Light years ahead it was foretold,

Ebb and flow through life as a light soul,

please rest in peace that’s the life goal

elder reenter as embry..Oh?

Back and forth where do we go?

((Back and forth where do we go?))

Cool, calm, collected, and clumsy

Come clean coast the Cosmos in onesie

Crash landed snap back like a bungie

Like birth cord gimme boobie hungry.

Back and forth search for something.

((Back and forth search for something.))

Pick pace and pick pathway, OK!

In space dust we have drifted astray,

One day still we end up in ashtray

Always as grey mist if you ask me,

Back and forth forever we go!

Back and forth forever we go!

To find a space we can call home

…find a date we can call home

…find a face we can call home

…find a fate we can call home

…find place we can call home

On a border between bridges and black whole

Right here we fight fear we all, know, travellin’ through bridges and black wholes

((travellin’ through bridges and black wholes))

Embracin’ heart beat we all hold, travellin’ through bridges and black wholes

((travellin’ through bridges and black wholes))

Space jumpin’ just made an old soul, go go! travellin’ through bridges and black wholes

((travellin’ through bridges and black wholes))

ti-ti-ti-ti-ti-ti-time lapse we mad young and mad old, travellin’ through bridges and black wholes

((travellin’ through bridges and black wholes))

Fork in road formless and formal,

Phasing thru these normal immortals,

Plenty pathways powerful portals,

Pass through threshold for now? I’m mortal.

Deja vu wherever we go!

Deja vu wherever we go?

Back from future float on a memor-y,

Forward through decade and through centur-y

Float on fortune and on an autumn leave

Life imitate or do art lead?

Resurrect in birth of a seed,

Free flow infinite in the breeze we,

REcycle, REbreath, and REbEarth

Rewind a time around the you know verse,

Activate brain cell ascension,

Space suit of flesh, heart beat the engine ((engine))

Number 9 month procession,

Transcending space, time, and dimension,

Eye (I) on quest, look up to the stars yet,

Who look back like, “Hey, we’re all on a star trek.”

Found a space we can call home, on a border between bridges and black wholes.

Found a place we can call home, on a border between bridges and black wholes.

https://youtu.be/x7J1hph_h70

raptravelfact or fiction

About the Creator

We the PPUL

"We live these Truths as self evident, that All Kind are created equal; that All Life are endowed by Creator with a certain Will of Life, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Promise of Harmony." E Pluribus Plures ; In Gaia We Trust

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