Farer Quotes

“The Spacefarer

This account is true
In event
And of myself.
Light years of traveling
The darkness
Have left only I,
Writing on dumb screens
Words too loud to voice.
My thoughts strike
The anvil of silence
And no spark is made.
I cower in the silence
That crashes around me.
I am frightened at my own being
Hudded against controls
That guide the ship
Through seeds and stones of fire
That does not warm me.
No one who has not known it
Can imagine the coldness
Of the absence of the sun.
We found no life
That had shadows
Or could speak to us.
I grive for my kind,
For landscapes and horizons,
For the lusty life of animals.
I hold myself in my arms.
I drink my tears
Because I cannot bear
To lose them.
The course is set
But will I stay it?
No being out of its world mould
Can truly know the journey's end.
I sing no more.
I still my hope with my fear,
I still my body
Not to draw the eye of imagine fate.
Will I dare this way again?
My heart misses its wandering beat.
I am bringing the treasured bodies
Of my brothers
Back to their birth planet.
Will the Earth Race
Be at home to us
When I knock?

Julie Holder”
― John Foster