Somewhere On Planet Earth... Poem by Etienne Charilaou

A bird chirped
suddenly sonorous.
Shall I say nothing?
Shall I say something
though it be feebly said?

What is beyond this horizon?
I seek the unbounded.

Beyond there is only a return
to where you were,
the beyond is you,
is somewhere in you; like
a hidden treasure.

Are orchids better in Amazonia than in suburbia?
Perhaps they are, but shall I ever know?

The grass is greener in another universe,
or is it bluer, purpler, more indigo?

O, where shall I go?
What shall I see in the furthest corners
of even this galaxy?

Such sights unimaginably wondrous;
that I may never see physically;
but a part of me presides there;
communicates to me across the great gulfs
a spectral amazement and quiet bliss.