"Far and Beyond"

Where is this heart of mine?-

Heaven knows.

It lies beneath where

The green grass grows.

It lies in the midnight skies

Beyond the stars,

Somewhere in the deep red dust

Of lifeless Mars.

It lies in the rings of Saturn

Between the gas and ice;

It lies somewhere deep inside-

Amid virtue and vice.

It lies in computers

Encoded in ones and zeroes;

It lies where the oceans roll,

Where the rivers flow.

It lies in the fiery core of earth

Where rocks thaw;

Somewhere in the mind-

Between apathy and awe.

Where is this heart of mine?-

Heaven knows.

Somewhere in the middle

So few people go.

Somewhere distant, but somehow close,

Somewhere deep inside a shallow pond-

Somewhere here yet there-

Somewhere far and beyond.

IDOMAD, 2009