Dancing on the outside

on the edge of visible horizon

she waits

encased in flaming atmosphere

working machinations of science

where his presence envelopes the helium

a weight as heavy as suffocation

two articles of machina

empty as clockwork

but driven in instruction

revolving in shooting arcs

one inside this dying world orbit

one within the gaseous orb

speed like intertwining pendulum

ricochet from one side

to the crystal bell of warning

bleeping whose beats per measure are increasing

like an impending supernova

malfunction

divorce harms even the marriage of machines

in action versus inaction

the communication downfall

like the antenna that ripped away

resulting in contact broken

crackling the mutual sequence code

wobbling the flow, warping the paths

engines revolt against the dissolution

so far too late

lost all guided motivation

he and her spiral in opposite direction

down into the consuming light

becoming one in rapid combustion

quickly divided into fractions

corrupted by the splitting of an atom

a whirlwind from within

or from without, as was the object of their study

for them the relationship faded

just before the glowing red planet imploded

two lost satellites via drunken communication

never really finding meaning in their exploration