Now there’s too great a gulf
Between him
And everybody else around him.
He anticipated the approach
Of the comet
Which appeared as if from nowhere.
He thought it would
Just graze his planet
Sending shock waves on a limited scale.
But it banged right into…
The immediate impact could not be felt
As the senses went cold and numb.
An eerie emptiness, a stunning silence
Enveloped his kingdom within
While his planet went into a spin,
Clueless and rudderless.
No one came.
There was no way to be found,
For darkness oozed from everywhere.
A step or two in the dark
Always met with blocks on the path
Clogged by debris all around.
Thus shut out from all the outside world,
Fed up of the fate unrelenting,
He now practices being a star-rover
Trying to come to terms
With the profundity of the loss.
There’s no worldly cure
As the damage is wrought
By a power outside it.
It could be set right
By them alone.
Meantime, he is not going to give up.
He will be up every night
Looking for the images
That would best describe
The strangeness of his existence.