From zero to eighty
or hundred miles an hour
in under five seconds or less
From peaks of joy
to depths of angst
in under a blink
From one end of globe
to another traversed
without a break
Distance between compassion
and antipathy dissipated
without a reason or strife
Moon, Mars, Venus
and rings of Saturn
within reach
The vast blankness
without and within,
unexplored, unknown still
Here's my ticket to the intergalactic
even as the voyage much closer
remains beyond reach
Progress is assured
so long as we keep inventing
ways to measure it
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