SHUTTLING THE PAWNS IN A SIMULATED GAME OF WAR

Fantastic voyage to the distant boundaries of outerspace

Traveling in line with the light of the stars.

Imaginings of drifting beside the red planet Mars.

Seeing extraterrestrial creatures within the minds great head.

Turning ashes to ashes and dust to dust

The decomposition we dread.

Wandering within the hearts of these early planeteers

Gazing upon these planets in motion

As we grieve all the lost lives through the years.

Searching beyond the spectrum of this planets core

To learn of life which existed before.........

Before the "First Time" when everywhere and when was the same

Then time brought man to his knees and the Great Calamity came.

Yet we exist in a multitude of mirrored solar systems

Adrift and amidst scores of thriving life

Dependent upon one another to end chaos and strife.

- Blanche McLanahan