*
because in my world
every evening
I invite my children to sleep
with the lie that we are
a simple incident
in the solar system
(so that teachers will not laugh at them
in schools where students
learn about a relative past)...

*
because nobody wants
to fly to the Moon again
and people read the stars
and collect their immortality
from the skies of other beings
like some blind cosmic stones...

*
because the price of telescopes
is too high
(even if every man should have
at least one
to look for answers far away
in galaxies where yesterday
could mean the shout of birth
or tear)...

*
...I stare at the sky
and imagine an astronaut
traveling free in the galaxy
and refusing to ask for
the sacrifice of superlight.