Two Steps- Light years

I stopped—

unable to take another step.

And yet, this is why I came.

Crossing ascents and descents,

untiring,

walking beside my own shadow.

Cutting a passage

through the frozen chest of seas—

this is why I came.

With planets, distant stars,

with comets

millions of light-years away.

Dissolving Earth’s clouds,

arriving at last

as molten sunlight—

this is why I came.

And yet—

this small, congealed darkness

remained.

This thin residue of cold

lingered

between us.

This short stretch of road

remained unnamed.

Still.

Dark.