Hoba West Meteor Poem by Gert Strydom

Near Grootfontein at Hoba West
in Namibia
I saw the fifty-five ton rock lie imbedded
into the earth
where as a fireball it fell from the sky.

That burning piece of iron rock,
could have fallen upon my town Springs,
could have wiped my suburb,
my home into the naught,

like a nuclear device dropping from up high,
in bolide form could have exploded
in blue thunder, could have vaporized
everything in the vicinity
including me, my dogs, my cats
and neighbours too.