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| Coasting stately, effortlessly through the Sun’s 4 f
prominence becoming our magnificence. Without these Tt
. bright badges, brilliant buttons, and dazzlingdécor
of heavenly bodies as twinkling slogans advertising _ i
| themselves on a black canvas, we'd be sailing alone 1 fl
r amidst black seas of infinity. The boundless, endless, i
_ unlimited, unforgiving, exceedingly great natureand _ 5 4
| 4 extent of outer space. Tantalizing us, provoking us, . : io
_ taunting us, frustrating us, tempting us, enticing us to -—
_ step outside our fraction of a dot. We must take direct _ | if |
aim with our sight and strive to take flight far out into — | —
~ the uncharted black waters, that is our target. Our | -—
\ jimagination is already waiting for us, beckoning us. “ y =
___ It’s only a matter of time before we find the necessary _ ian
7 strand of knowledge and eruptinto space. Yousay, 4 Of
\ “impossible’, while impossible says, “I’m possible” __ a /

Editorial Note: Enjoy some well composed prose poetry about the greatest: |
of astronomical philosophy, that of space and our thoughts about it. :