When I will get to you Alpha Centauri?

Alpha Centauri! In the vast cosmic distances

of millions of light years you are the nearest

not as a star but as a triple star system as

Alpha centauri A, Alpha centauri and proxima centauri

Being just around 4 light years away

The years to get to you is just 4 years at light’s speed

Compared to the millions of years to other stars

In your system Proxima Centauri is the nearest star

Still how to get to you, nothing travels faster than light

And even light speed spacecraft it will be 4 long years!

Do we have a space craft at light speed?

No, then how to get to you our dearest nearest

Nuclear, anti-matter, laser propulsions

Whatever be the propulsion we fall short

In reaching you overcoming space hurdles

Facing the onslaught of radiation, taking food,

Upkeeping the spacecraft keeping uplink, downlinks

Is there a way to shrink the light years by space warps?

Employing short cuts of worm holes to swim light years?

Assuming these improbables done when I will get to you?

Till I reach you will keep observing you through telescopes

Keep calculating , devising means to reach you

To travel to the vicinity of exoplanet near you limiting

the close approach you too to the manageable levels

Of heat, Yea Alpha  A, B, Proxima Centauris! See you!

-Mohan Sanjeevan

Pic: Alpha Centauri A, Alpha Centauri B and Red dwarf star Proxima Centauri oribiting the other bigger stars

N.B: Normal propulsion journey proposed to Proxima Centauri is 150 years! So imagine cutting it short to just 4 years is something to achieve!