Heavenly Atlantis
Johnclarestokes
this was written in 2011 on the eve of the Space Shuttles final voyage and on the now 52nd anniversary of landing upon the moon.
Soon Atlantis sounds her final sonic boom
as dark side of the moon landings revert
to a memory of history,
our dreams crashing upon the globe of gloom,
dimming vision down to an earth bound misery.
Will they have perished in vain?
The Flash Gordon’s who pierced the stratosphere,
the latter-day Elijah’s who in their fiery chariots came,
to give the huddled masses something to cheer.
To drink from the fountains of a Milky Way,
fathom first hand the cradle of the celestial dawn,
embrace if but for a moment creations day,
compose from the Martian Sea a new song.
Far beyond the life of today’s narrow men,
a Galileo shall rise and point to the skies,
to heavenly Atlantis we must sail again!
As a gleam returns to the shrouded eyes.
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