Future Poem by Ashley Akari

Feel the cold sand
Rising, rising beneath
Our toes.
Feel the night-cool breeze
Against our bare faces,
Turned to a horizon
Hung with a thousand stars.

Oh can you hear
So high and clear
The flaming constellations
Singing?
Oh can you smell
The rainy, salty air
Wrestling in our
Tangled hair?

Oh take my hands
And let us stand
By this sea forever
forever,
And hear the heart’s
Deep, mystic rhythm—
Oh hear the beat
And, waking, come alive.

Oh come the sky
Is ours and Time
Stands by and I
Can see her smiling.

So take my hands
And deeply breathe
For death and life
Seem far away.

The moon's our ship,
A thousand pieces
Glistening in the glistening sea.
We will come and see and conquer
Islands strange, old, unseen:
Go to places we've never been.
And beneath these wandering
Skies we'll dream
Of shores, alien, dark and far—
Of skies endless and
Sown with stars.