like your sun-
illumined shadow,
no matter where
or how you roam, is always
pointed elsewhere.
Infinity
is the feeling you get
that you might,
like a beam of star-
light, strain the borders
of forever;
while eternity
is the way the thieving
darkness seems to cling—
that sinking feeling
of seeing
past the universe
but always, interminably
of being
right there.
