My husband and I love this one by our friend Will!
Brilliant and beautiful! — Molly
A Bedtime Story
And so it was
Children
That the
“Space Age”
Finally
Came to
An end.
All the men
At NASA
Just couldn’t
Get it up
Anymore
And we
Discovered
That
Space travel
Is done best
Without
Rockets
Blast-offs
Noise, smoke
And space junk.
Everyone
Came back
Down
To Earth.
NASA
Became GAIA
Run by
A council of
Indigenous grandmothers.
Our own
Planet
Became
“The Final Frontier”
And
The mysteries
Of the
Universe
Unfolded
As a
Shimmering
Garden
Before our
Eyes.
The longing
To escape the
“Surly bonds of earth”
Became
A longing
To know
The spirit
Within
The Earth
And all the
Seeds of
Genius and
Passion
Bound
For outer space
Were scattered
Far and wide
In our
Own
Backyards
And
Villages grew
From
Homeless camps
Poets emerged
From
Prison cells
Grain sprouted
From
Battlefields
And
Jeff Bezos
And
All others
Who couldn’t
Learn
To share
Went to Mars
Where
They live
Like ants
In little colonies
Beneath
The cold ground
To this day.
— Will Hornyak, August 2022
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