The Kuiper Belt hosts a variety of
Asteroids, comets, and other
Entities similar to Pluto, to us
Family life on the periphery
A series of ultra-Neptunian bodies
Close but not entwined
Pluto lives on a border
Spinning around, taking
A long time to revolve
Around our sun
Invisible to us for so long
Finally proclaiming space
Pluto is cooler than most planets
That live in the close deep heat
Near the sunny orb of bright
Flames, where Mercury
And Venus revolve, sweating
Our Earth and its temperate
Climate, changing over time
Heating up more and more
Bearing the burden of possibly
Becoming kindling
Pluto's icy surface has a rocky core
Not an island, all alone
This dwarf planet has buddies
On the outskirts of our solar system
Farther out than the centaurs
Full of craters, scars from the past
A fluid ocean under its icy exterior
We might see Pluto as lonely
But no, Pluto is surrounded
By other objects, those others on the edge
The margins, the fringes of our solar system
Unlike the other planets, Pluto is
Eccentric, elliptical instead of ecliptic
Pluto belongs on this perimeter
This boundary, this membrane
Holding space at the outer rim
A porous fascia, protective with
Five tiny moons revolving around it
Tidally locked in hydrostatic equilibrium
Linked by orbital resonances
Far away from the sun
But still connected by
Magnetic forces
Like human beings are held
Close together as well as spatially
Separate and apart
Are we like Pluto, a bridge
A connector to the outer reaches
Beyond human knowledge
Peeking at Divine Mysteries and
Other galaxies and systems
With curiosity, viewing ourselves
As parts of a Whole, the Holy?
Maybe we are all attached as
A web, a network of colorful jewels
Lingering and waiting to see
If we can soak up that juicy
Galactic energy that may pull us
Away from our revolving paths
Connected to our current sun
Truth, beauty, destruction, and love
All exist within all parts of
These systems, every type of
Family linked together in the
Present, and living on the border
With no judgment or shame
Just being who we are
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