Death, Songs, and Yarns

[song_of_thea]

Floating through time and space
Particles of dust become life
Peptides working at a quick pace
Seem like a mere speck in the overall timeline

Blasts of molten lava
Erupt from the core
Steam races to the sky, falling
Back to the ground in waves once more

Fighting cell by cell over millennia,
Evolving and growing
Always swimming and clawing
Desperate
For the next horizon, unknowing

Shrinking from the cold
We try to survive the age of winter
By burrowing through the rock or
Shedding scales and feathers for fur
We join the fold,
Or we die with a shiver

Our hubris propels us
Our desire compels us
Yours is to be conquered
Until there is none,
We wrestle our way
Back into the stars
Only reaching our destination
Through death, songs, and yarns

But for now, that is enough,
That sort of immortality
Songs from centuries previous
Float out of our system
On Voyager, or Arecibo
In binary, music, and hydrogen

We perish
We are reborn
From stardust and back
We are endless

Comments

[static_abyss]

I really like all the imagery and the feelings that come through. It was a pleasure to read.

[fausts_dream]

This is very well done. Enjoyed. The last two stanzas are especially effective.

[the_eternal_overthinker]

Excellent! Loved it :)

[rayaso]

What an excellent poem for the prompt! I especially liked the lines "Our hubris propels us/Our desire compels us." I'm always glad to see poems.

[bleodswean]

Nice! A "song" from the future.

[thephantomq]

There are a lot of really good metaphors and imagery in here. :) Good job!

[megatronix]

Omg, I love this. Very, very cool. I love the imagery you create with your word choices. This is my favorite part:

"We wrestle our way
Back into the stars
Only reaching our destination
Through death, songs, and yarns"

Well done!

[dragonswimmer]

I love it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[murielle]

You know, I long to write brilliant comments that convey, cleverly my appreciation for the work and the writer, but too often, like now, I am reduced to...Wow!

Wow!

[adoptedwriter]

Reminds me of the creation of life.

[bellatrixe]

This has such a rich and dreamy feel to it. Lovely!

[troof_therry]

It's the evolutionary story of mankind, a kind of collective determination that makes us us, and it's nicely written that way! I really love the line "we wrestle our way / Back into the stars."

[tatdatcm]

An homage to the story? Nice take on the prompt.

[bewize]

I really loved the message at the end. Great job!

[moretta]

I like how the ending made me feel. Lovely.

[halfshellvenus]

Oh, there were a lot of neat lines in this.

Desperate
For the next horizon,
was probably my favorite, but the whole stanza that begins "Shrinking from the cold" was just fantastic.