Traveller

Travelling a day at a time
Around the Sun
I can never go home
Can never return
Like a starship locked on course
Forward I go
Toward the frontiers of possibility
Is there a pattern
To the chaotic array of stars and gasses
Or the daily events in my life?
I long to be the captain
Not the hapless passenger
Nor the spectator to celestial dramas
But my instruments are faulty
And I can never know
Where I am going
Not until the end