An Extract from this Month's Release: The Sky Child

 To celebrate this month's release of the second edition of 366 Days of Poetry released. Links to the collection can be found at: https://books2read.com/u/3n2Yv9.

 

The Sky Child

  

Written on August 3, 2015, for the April 16 entry of 366 Days of Poetry, this piece imagines what a poet might say about a person born and raised on a deep-space freighter or transport.

 

The sky child wakes,

screaming at the dawn,

begs to be taken shipboard,

where the air is stale and warm,

begs to be let run and play

in the stillness she can find

within the starship’s metal hull,

its climate-controlled confines.

 

The sky child was born amidst the stars

on a spaceship running deep

through the vacuum and the warp

surrounded by the black.

She has never felt a planet’s breeze,

or played beneath a planet’s sky.

The only suns she knows of

are the mighty stars she passes by.

  

Grass holds a special terror,

as does dirt beneath her feet.

The sky is a monster arching overhead

that hides the black she wants to see,

and when she sees the sun rise,

it’s appearance makes her fret,

for she misses having it up close,

beneath her homeship’s jets.

  

The sky child loves her wand’ring home.

She loves the wide, deep black.

She’s now been planetside, once or twice,

but swears she’ll ne’er go back.

 

 

Cover art is by Jake at JCaleb Design, and links to 366 Days of Poetry can be found on Books2Read at: https://books2read.com/u/3n2Yv9.