Dust floats slow in zero-g hangar bay
Silver body catches starlight ray
Shutter frozen since the crew departed
No fingers left to load the cartridge
Film remembers what the void erases
Frames hold breath in vacuum sealed tight
Every click a ghost in metal cases
Waiting for a developer's light
Mission patch peels off the bulkhead steel
Logbook ends at mission day four-two
Camera drifted past the airlock seal
Battery dead but lens stays true
Thumbprint smudges on the advance lever
Kodak gold still coiled in plastic can
Earthrise captured once but lost forever
Negative sleeps in its metal span
Film remembers what the void erases
Frames hold breath in vacuum sealed tight
Every click a ghost in metal cases
Waiting for a developer's light
Radiation fogs the emulsion slow
Cosmic rays write signatures unknown
No developer left to wake the image
Only silence where the signals flown
Docking clamps engage with hydraulic hiss
Salvage crew cuts through the frozen seal
Fingers brush the viewfinder's cold abyss
Shutter wakes — one final frame to steal
Film remembers what the void erases
Frames hold breath in vacuum sealed tight
Every click a ghost in metal cases
Waiting for a developer's light
Silver halide holds the stars
Developing in darkness
