not going anywhere

 my friends are talking
 about leaving this country
 they worry about the world
 we're leaving to their children

 and don't i want children?
 don't i want someone
 to spend the end times with?
 what about your husband then

 and what about us?
 you're no shackleton
 returning all your men
 from icy desolation

 and what about me?
 i'm no ulysses
 skipping ten years
 of missed connections

 all explorers are conquerors
 no conqueror returns triumphant
 (a few years from now)
 no one even left port (this year)