Our worldlines looping
Bending nearly touching
Feeling your static charge

What was behind
Now before
All becoming

That was then
This is now
Safe distance

But our relative velocity
Dilates space(time)
Transforming perspective

Placing borders
Between you and me
Imaginary lines to defend

Here be red
Here be blue
Here be dead

Maps are simplifications
Reducing treacherous ground
To beginning middle destination

Here be mountains
Here be desert
Here be my enemy

Maps show relationships
Flattening sphere to plane
Using hyperbolae and scale

Here be me
Here be you
A curve connecting

Showing in two-dimensions
What we know or have been told
Exists as three and (many) more

Here be my world
Here be its edge
Here be dragons

VII.      2013

We are each cartographers
Crafting symbolic representations
Of perceived and received reality

Here be the road
Here be the river
Here be the ocean