Heavy Weapons

The successive 
alternating
stages

of acceleration,
coast,
re-ignition

have brought me here,

into silence
where at long last
I see the lay of the land.

Oh to remain here forever...

But I have my mission --
I am armed
on final trajectory,
etching the sky
with an arc
of parabolic fire,

to penetrate the heart,
to unfurl buds
of ambivalence
into petals
of ionizing fire.

Oh blessed annihilation...

Scott Speck
10/12/2007