Poem: "0 to 1"

[ysabetwordsmith]

Name:ysabetwordsmith
Title: "0 to 1"
Colors: Vellum #2 Lacuna
Supplies and Styles: None.
Word Count: 158
Rating: G
Warnings: No standard warnings apply.

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The following poem belongs to my series An Army of One: The Autistic Secession in Space. This is sociological science fiction about neurovariant people forming a culture of their own in the space between two galactic arms.


"0 to 1"


In the Lacuna,
home is not a physical space,
but space itself,
the emptiness that contains wholeness.

It is not a place, but people;
not a site, but cipherspace;
not a foundation, but a feeling.

It is not something that can be articulated
but that's all right: everyone is used to it.

Of course they get homesick,
sometimes, for the Galactic Arms --
the little curl of Orion-Cygnus around Sol
and the outward sweep of Carina-Sagittarius,
the grandest adventure of humankind.

Who wouldn't get homesick
for where they came from,
once in a while?
But it's not where they're going.

The secessionists have discovered
that the Lacuna
only seems to be empty,
its dusty silence filled with meaning
like bodies that speak a different language.

They are learning,
slowly but surely,
to love and not abhor the vacuum,
to fill emptiness with what matters most to them,
to think themselves consciously from

0 to 1.