"Sanctuary"

Crockett was saddened when he realized he would be the last gorilla in space. He gazed deeply into the void and considered that the word 'void' was such a misnomer for it. The expanse was full, full of wonders that he nor any other simian would ever see again.
Briefly, his mind flashed back to his childhood, when his surrogate mother would feed him banana paste from a sterile plastic spoon, her rubber gloves gently caressing his cheek.
"Space is a lonely place for us," he mused, "but it's the last sanctuary."

©2012 Tim Hodge