I'm a bit of a space cadet, so this poem makes perfect sense to me, cheers Keats |
-The Displaced Astronaut- by Keaton Foster Upon the edge Waiting friends For a shot at glory For his chance at infamy The world will remember What he is about to do Breaking the boundaries Of both space and time Shattering every reasonable idea Inciting a mountain of fear Will he return from the blackness Will their hero somehow survive Or will he become a streak across the sky Plenty of fools have died doing lesser things Brutally the rocket engines come alive The countdown has begun to decline Closer and closer to destiny Five, four, three, two, one Gods speed Whispers across many lips He hears not one of them All he hears is the roar Of the fuel as it burns Lift off quickly becomes transcendence Utter mind numbing ascension The ride seems quite quick Faster than his training did insist Escaping his earth bound existence Goes off without a single hitch Soon he is heading towards The nearest inhabitable planet Soon he is flying through space Moving slower than light But increasingly faster than sound Even at such a blistering speed It will take months to get there A place where no other human has been A place for the history books His name will in the end Be upon every page As the first man to travel From earth to planet X He will be known as The displaced astronaut Of course it was all his choice But that matters none Through space he goes Towards what, who really knows Will he ever get there is unclear Planet X, inhabitable at best Incompatible at worst It’s all theory and speculation Calculations made by men Often sitting behind desk Are they without question correct Only he, the man on his way Will ultimately come to know The displaced astronaut Has begun his journey His true test and lesson of bravery Plenty will cheer for his success Others will wonder what it all means Few will ever live to see the results Or benefit from what he alone risked He is a brave man with something to prove Hurtling through space, he’ll get his chance… The Displaced Astronaut Written by Keaton Foster Copyright © 2014. |