Peripheral – distilled

(with thanks to Robert Thompson)

I wish I didn’t know

how far it is

to the nearest star.

I wish my horizon

was where the land stops

and the sky starts,

for then I might understand

why everything seems

so important -

the way that animals do;

whose only world

is that within their view.

How I wish I didn’t know

how far it is

to the nearest star.

John H Davies

6th April 2011