Beyond the Dark

Image Credits: © Pixabay.

I hear there's a place 

Always ablaze

And yet another one

Always on glaze.

From here 

To our next home

Lies an intricate puzzle

The world beyond

Embedded in fallacies.

We shall use the spacecraft of genius

To hop into the depths though tedious.

We shall see through the dark

And acquire the eyes that we lack

Then spread out our wings

And be capable of all things.

Will you carry with you

Your poetry anthologies to Mars

Or will you leave them 

Here on Terra 

In oblivion

With people of its dominion?

We shall be called Martians

When we go there 

I’ll be an artisan.

We will be a space-faring generation

And have no connection 

With common mortals.

Mars, the red planet

Is our next abode.

Amongst us

Are souls

That will set foot

On Jezero Crater,

On Utopia Planitia

And on Olympus Mons.

Ceres, a planetoid

In the Asteroid belt

Is laden with what we inspire.

Ganymede, a wondrous satellite

In the Jovian system

Will be home

To other generations.

In the distant future

Our ID cards

Will bear a field–

Planet of birth.

For some it’ll be Terra

And for some, Mars.

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