A Galactic Starburst In The Shape Of A Bullet

1.
 
I am a thin sliver of doubt
 
floating upon a sea of devastating tranquility.
 

 
Yet I dream with the velocity
 
of exploding stars.
 
2.
 
As planet Earth rotates at 1,000 miles per hour,
 
my mind twirls with dream-time possibilities;
 
 
 
like a ball on a string we simultaneously zoom
 
around a lemony sun at 66,000 miles per hour.
 
3.
 
Even when I try to cease these clock-tick movements
 
the chemistry of life churns onward as heartbeat by heartbeat
 
my body rifles through space-time.
 
 
 
In the massive serenity of the moment
 
I sense the glacial churn of the Milky Way;
 
 
 
though our spiral arm spins at 483,000 miles per hour,
 
it still feels like swimming in molasses.
 
 
 
4.
 
As I sink deeper into this cosmic mirror-land
 
I hear the faint rattle of a snake’s tail
 
as my perspective morphs again.
 
 
 
Relative to the Cosmic Background Radiation,
 
the Milky Way barrels through space-time
 
at 1.3 million miles per hour.
 
 
 
5.
 
As my essence bathes in the faint
 
universal whispers of the big bang
 
 
 
I taste millimeter-sized wavelengths
 
bursting with the flavor of human epiphany,
 
 
 
for I suddenly know that,
 
since the formation of the Sun and Earth,
 
 
 
the quarks that compose my body
 
have spun around the Milky Way twenty times.
 
 
 
6.
 
I am a thin sliver of doubt
 
floating upon a sea of devastating tranquility.
 
 
 
Yet I dream with the velocity
 
of exploding stars.