LONELY SATELLITE

One by one, they filter away,
Leaving behind nothing but a lonely satellite,
Drifting aimlessly in her own orbit.
A thin thread of gravity tethering her down
But it's dangerously at risk of snapping,
Leaving her even more adrift than she already is.

A lonely orbit
Never crisscrossing celestial paths with other spacebound neighbors.
Sometimes stationary, inertia,
Wanting gravity to pull her in,
But she can never get enough momentum
To attract those bodies nearest to her.

A Hailey's comet on a lonely 76-year journey
Going around and around the same path,
Always ending up where she started.

(10/24/2003)
(rev. 11-22-2008)
(rev. 11-28-2008)