Promptly Poetry

The Great Beyond

The Great Beyond

Always is forever
and that’s a long, long time,
long enough, you’d think,
to reach far as the stars
and they, we’re told,
are so distant even light
gets tired by the journey.
I doubt we’d make it,
given hundreds of lifetimes,
we’d still fall short,
our eyes filled with the sight,
fingers groping at nothing.


Line Count: 12
Free Verse
For Promptly Poetry Challenge, Week 20
Prompt: Write a poem about something that will always be out of reach