Light Years
(2015/2016) / “The UC review”
I am an eastbound commuter,
Chasing the rising sun,
Watching milky-colored skies
With sleeping, dreaming eyes
Still hazy with starry residue
Layered like delicate tiramisu
Little lights hiding behind icing
Twinkling, thinking that I
might be missing Mississauga
While the moon’s phases stamp
the sky-searching for me
seatbelts secured on Islington pillars
far away from the yellow horizon
two first stars of the front car
To a university universe downtown
Claustrophobic caves sleeve the subway
The blackness an expanse of starless galaxies
This is us racing at Light speed
heavy highschool years melt off our shoulders
Old school pluto tumbles off the radar
From Kipling to spadina
And I sigh
on creaky knees and heavy eyes
St. George rolls in with its green tile Eden
We wait for the doors to slides apart,
And the air smells like dusty galaxy,
They say my destiny is a lie
But look at me now
I have arrived .