Heliopause
A borderland
barrier of atoms dancing
under the last pull of the sun
The rush of silence
like a favorite song
skipping for the first time
The reach of our yearning star
that’s stretched and strained
until finally it’s time to tear away
Go beyond the boundary
past the discord
of trans-Neptunian noise
And listen
to unimagined symphonies
bind unknown spheres
Where the interstellar threshold
beckons the limit of imagination’s
capacity for fear
There has never been dark like this
nor beyond, such light
Barry Charman is a writer living in North London. He has been published in various magazines, including Ambit, Popshot, Bare Fiction Magazine, Firewords Quarterly and The Alarmist. He has poems published online at Every Day Poets and Postcard Poems & Prose. He has more recently had poems published in The Leading Edge, and Lunar Poetry.