When Antares stirred the mind
And the old sky burned with signs,
Astronomers locked away
Their tables of forgotten time.
Earth became a cameo,
Suspended in the outer dark,
While the nebulae unrolled
Ancient ligatures of stars.
On the dials there flashed again
Ascensions, declinations,
Like inscriptions left behind
By extinguished generations.
On the Far Side of the Moon,
In a distant selenite land,
Stands a city carved in silence,
Built by no remembered hand.
Ancient Germanic emblems
Beside a stellar dynasty,
As if two forgotten calendars
Shared the same chronology.
There were seven-sided halls,
There were gates of anorthite,
There were hidden docking vaults
Far beyond all traffic lights.
Through the vaulted galleries
Marched the ranks in measured pace,
Bearing weathered insignia
Of regiments erased.
And the elders of Aldebaran,
Grave and luminous to behold,
Studied charts of vanished systems
In repositories old.
On the Far Side of the Moon,
In a distant selenite land,
Stands a city carved in silence,
Built by no remembered hand.
Ancient Germanic emblems
Beside a stellar dynasty,
As if two forgotten calendars
Shared the same chronology.
In the lithographic archives
Of a monastery below,
Lay cosmographies depicting
Regions no one else could know.
Every plate revealed
Star archipelagos afar,
Every codex traced a passage
Past the dominion of pulsars.
When the vessel turned once more
Toward interstellar seas,
Not a voice disturbed the twilight,
Not a word disturbed the peace.
On the Far Side of the Moon,
In that distant selenite land,
Still the hidden city lingers,
Beyond the maps of humankind.
And whoever watches heaven
With unwavering devotion
May yet find their names recorded
In that station still unspoken.
Far beyond the reach of history,
Far beyond what we have known,
Waiting in the lunar darkness,
Waiting to be found.
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