The Good Ship

There are many names
for many well known ships.

Crafts worthy of
the high seas and the ends of Earth.

My starship has no name
because it simply is.

When I tell you that you can board
the ship, that there is a seat

reserved it is no small gesture
because there only ever is

space for one
and all the rest of me that travels

deep.  There are many names
she goes by

under the hood
of our personal communiques,

but really, the only thing
appropriate that you can call her

by is the starship;
any other name

is just a name for another thing
with which no one will ever identify.