On the River of a Dream

Galaxies colliding

On the river of a dream

beneath a drapery of limbs

i felt the strength of current

just before the falls


The banks were thick with flowers

sirens smiling from the shores

on the river of a dream

just before the falls


Architecture on the hills

a city shining in the sun

i'd seen it all before

on the river of a dream


The air all roar and mist

i felt the strength of current

just before the falls

on the river of a dream.


—Hubble Telescope photo by NASA and the European Space Agency. This collision of two galaxies is a preview of what might happen, NASA says, when our Milky Way collides with the approaching Andromeda galaxy in a few billion years.