In Conversation with the Universe
By Antony José Ma Junior
To Jupiter – A Star That You Might Have Been
Such turbulence
Such violence
You resemble a star
You were made a star
But a star that couldn’t quite make it
A star that might have been
Is that the reason for your turbulence?
Your Majesty
Named after the Roman God you are
The very King of the Roman gods
Your nature is that of a god
But you are substandard
King of only the planets,
not of our actual star
Therefore you rage
And rage and rage and rage
for centuries, eons and ages
An old rage
In turmoil for 5 billion years
A long time to rage
And still raging
Wildly uncontained
For not amassing enough gases
to light up like our sun
A long time to complain
You’re certainly not one to mess with
I know I wouldn’t.
Your violent storms
Such rage
Unceasing violent winds
Such violence
You roar and whistle I hear
What say you?
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To Saturn – An Enigma
Just what are you?
Seemingly more serene than your raging neighbour
But ah! You are guarded
The very opposite to your outwardly angry ‘son’
You do not reveal yourself at first sight
You are a mystery to me
Your mysterious rings shroud you in a veil of secrecy
But a slightly lesser giant
with your own turbulence,
or is it?
A different kind of rage
Or is it even rage?
What say you?
There’s definitely a message here.
To The Vela Pulsar – Speeded Up by Death
Such speed
Spinning 11 times a second
After the violent explosive death
Of your former glory
Incomprehensible gravity
So very small you have now become
Yet so dangerous to be near you
You tear apart anything and everything
I cannot even begin to imagine how you feel
As you spin faster with further age
Eventually becoming a black hole
The actual doorway to hell
Woe be anything that strays near you.
Are you even sane anymore?
It feels to me you are sick
So very very sick.
What say you?
To the Black Hole – The Ultimate Endgame
You are the very door to hell
Nothing escapes you
Not even light
You are omnivore incarnate
The monster of destruction
The ultimate unimaginable violence
The ultimate endgame of stars
You have no mercy
Because you are death
Truly, ultimately, insatiably
I wonder
What happens when you take in another of your kind?
When two gates of hell collide?
What say you?
Such a universe of chaos and destruction
The very origins of life.