You’re Now Here or Nowhere

Too near and too far,
You live in a jar,
A bottled-up world.

Everybody’s curled
And cramped as a djinn,
And everyone’s been

Around and around,
But, outside the round
Prison, only night’s

Untouchable lights.
Once, you braved your fears
And journeyed for years

To visit strange lands.
Now, on the one hand,
Almost anywhere

Can be reached by air
In a day or two,
Anywhere you choose,

But on the other,
There’s nothing further
Past the nursery

Of this orrery
You’ll ever traverse
Of the universe.