I have no idea where to send this poem, so I'll just post it for my journal readership. :-)

PROMISES
Copyright 2005 Eric Marin


Where are the gray starships
deep and thrumming music swells
Flying through hyperspace?
prismatic explosions of light

they
travel
through
digitized
fantasies
now

platinum series video games and dvd limited edition collector sets

dreaming on frosted nights
staring at the blurry stars

childhood yearning shattered on the icebreaker bow of reality

alpha centauri
still
a
lifelong
journey
away

Where is the future
once glittering and perfect
That sci fi promised?
always just around the temporal corner