Poem

Juanita Muñoz

     My poem is about NASA finding liquid water on Mars, it is written from the perspective of an astronaut and in the poetic form of rhyming poem. This event is important to the world because there is a chance that there is or was life on a planet other than Earth and because in case that water runs out here, there is another place where we can drink water from.

 

"Second Chance"

 

Today I'm just a happy face

After we found out what's going on in space

Nothing else seems to matter

Because we found water.

 

I remember that the time was in slow motion like the kind that happens when you meet your soulmate

The smell of the science room was as intense as the hospital’s waiting room.

 

The robot saw a long, dark stain

On a small area on the surface of Mars

The water that runs down the drain

Is now somewhere near the stars.

 

The long, dark stain looked like the path that a river leaves when it dries up.

 

I'm as happy as a child who just got a puppy for Christmas

After all, This is a big deal for an astronaut like me

Part of it, because I may now work on something more advance

To find if out in space, there are other lives

The other part of it, is because we now may have a chance

Of living on top of Earth’s new wife.

 

What am I worried about?

Is that we, humans, might bomb it out

What we did to Earth

We might do it to Mars.