Orbital
part two
Before
we travel into the dark outside
our
global skin,
Pack
a thought
for
all the time spent in zero G.
To
be unwrapped
wherever
it will be
that
you
arrive
homelessly,
knocking
at the entry point
hoping
other planets will honour guests
with
a welcome we have left.
in
a dark night complete
with
only artificial day
gravity
and time
-though
forces we resist-
keep
us very much alive.
Contained
in a space
we
somehow displaced
with
artificial flight.