Where is the arrow pointing?
The arrow of time, of change.
It points one way. You can never return.
Mileage is absolute.
Distance is a relationship between forces.
It bends into irretrievable pathways.
If I get there, I will die there.
Dust on Mars is not fine powder, but shards. Charged pinballs working like magnets. Once settled, forever the top layer of my skin.
Oh, merry protons! So fast, so furious. They shoot right through me. Alter my DNA. I am no longer an earthling.
I can never return.