The Soul Star ⭐️The Great Void

Poetry in the Deep

Waiting in Cargo Bay 1, Antiny could barely contain his excitement. It seemed like he had been travelling though pitch-dark space forever. Then he saw a tiny speck of blue light. It was to this blue dot that Antiny sailed. With each pulse, he saw the beacon more clearly. It wobbled in the dark, becoming stronger, brighter, and more distinct with every year he moved toward it.

The wobbling blue dot was the only thing Antiny could detect in the leagues of darkness in every direction. He thought of it as some sort of divine tracker or pole star that would lead him to safety.

To while away the time, he wrote two poems to this little blue dot. He imagined a world of watery skies with angels and stars and permanent death and resurrection. In these poems the blue dot was a lifeline to the life beyond the endless night. He imagined a world of blue water, with beings of light who set sail in ships to cross the watery deep to reach a fabled port. In this port there were castles and bars, maidens and drink, salvation and song. He called the two poems, “116 Fathoms Deep.”

In these poems, Antiny imagined himself in a watery world with a blue beacon bobbing in the deep. He imagined that the deep was just another name for a sky with an atmosphere, and that a star might guide him to dry land. He also imagined that there were two types of dry land. In the first poem, a million armies fought by night, nothing was discussed, and the inhabitants marched column by column into a cloud of dust. In the second poem, there was connection and love, steins of beer, sturdy floorboards and maidens with milky white breasts.

Yet what was he to do now, when after watching it bob for the last thousand years, the blue dot had disappeared? And what was he now waiting for, in the cargo hold of some monstrous ship?

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