Distant Sun

Inspired by Black Sabbath’s ‘Planet Caravan’

Distant Sun

I went traveling long ago

far away from home,

away from Earth and all I knew

to seek what might be true.

Down long electric strands

through starry webs and edifices

as I flew on unseen wings

the heavens revealed many things.

Strange skies full of sprites,

and precessing herds of distant suns,

worlds of burning, poisonous seas

and also things that should not be.

Ice mountains with bladed peaks

veined with unknown metals,

oceans of deadly auroras

and fountains that bend through stars.

Rings made of broken worlds

spinning round galactic horizons,

Moons sit like jewels in diadems upon the head,

Here! Hidden realms no one has tread.

Rains that devour stone,

towering mighty maelstroms,

glowing eyes of cosmic cloud

stars veiled in gray shroud.

Beyond the edge of eternity

are worlds trapped by dark stars

and shapes and colors no one can say -

fearsome things no words convey.

That is but a glimmer

of bleak and beautiful things.

How I long for golden sunshine

for home is on my mind,

But Earth is now a memory.

Its beauty gone to dust.

On Pluto I dwell with none

under light of a distant sun.