Heading For Venus

-Heading For Venus-
by
Keaton Foster



I am just a guy
A man with a weird plan
Implementation will take place
From my mind to my hands
A once blank page will
Spell out all that I intend
A distance that must be reached
At any price I am willing to concede
Time and space mean nothing
Bound only by imagination
Conventionality laid to waste
I am heading for Venus
Not because I want to get there
But because I want to get away
Far from all that has been made
Far away from my human shape
Out into the ether
Out into the nether reaches of all
That humans are comfortable with
That is where I wish to go
I have no spaceship
No way to break earth’s gravity
But rather an ability to imagine
Things and experiences that I have
Never had or could hope to
Venus is the second planet from the sun
Named for love and beauty
Not ugly like the earth
Not a travesty of inequality
Or a ridiculous hypocrisy
But rather an expansive terrestrial world
That has hidden what is below its clouds
From those with prying eyes
Venus is a place where I could be alone
A place where my imagination could take hold
I could shape the sea, mold the land
And place the forest where I wish
I could fill it full of wild creatures
Uninhibited beings free to live as they wish
I could build up every mountain
Or just as quick tear them all down
No one, nothing could tell what to do
It would be up to me
My imagination would scream
And only I would hear it
Only I would know what is being said
And what is being expressed
I am heading for Venus
Because I need to go to a place
That I alone can be free
To do what my mind
Has the power to conceive…




Heading For Venus
Written by Keaton Foster Copyright © 2012.