Pale Blue Dot

I am inspired by the picture taken by Voyager I as it was set to exit our solar system.  Each time I see it, the photo stops me. Below are thoughts that came to me as I stood admiring it.

Pale Blue Dot  

Reflected in light's narrow shaft

between two voids:

our planet caught on camera

from the stage of the galaxy's

                                       embrace.

So slender the sunbeam.

So inconsequential the globe.

So like a mote in the satellite's eye.

And when death decrees that I

become one with the earth

And when radio signals no longer

hum the birth of the universe

And when new stars stagnate,

fresh realms refuse to rise

And when our sun implodes

five billion years from now

And when this world flares

into chimera, once more, I will be

                                            home.

Marilyn Aschoff Mellor