Upon Europa Poem by G J Salgado

Upon Europa



My nails ached from the scratching and splinters
My fingers were crippled and blood stained
They were black from the bruises caused by the constant digging through the raw wormed filled dirt
I scrapped at the earth to return back to life
I dug for my freedom, to become real; to breathe that first gasp of living air
So that they know that I am still here and I am still alive
Just a glimpse of sunshine
A simple taste of life
And to be a part of the moon once again
I took a walk on the moon
Countdown to Jupiter
I can be cruel in the most beautiful possible ways
You should know because I came from you
From one planet to another across the galaxy
If Saturn only knew what Venus did
We'd both end up on Mars
Take a comet through the milky way
Feathers and wings we stood searching for the moon
We were flying with angels in the stars
Singing with the wind we roamed the heavens
Howling with wolves upon the open earth
And dancing with gypsies we became free
I soon became a space oddity, a sun-like star
With distance between Uranus and Neptune
I searched for life as I was a new born star
Mercury never tasted so good
I was not like the others
Free as a star child absorbing everything
Roaming the worlds with the realms of Pluto
Before I decide to make one of them my own
Lo, Ganymede and Callisto intrigued me so and enticed me to stay
Amongst Lo I found plumes of sulphur spewing
From a surface of what I thought to be hell itself
Lava lakes and liquid rock
Jupiter's largest moon Ganymede
Without any life upon the seventh moon
Part of a long dead world heavily cratered object
Is the mysterious moon Callisto
My latest discovery took me back to Europa
With an icy surface and oceans beneath
I am the moon's reflection
The moon's glow consumes me
Upon the smallest of Jupiter's four Galilean satellites, and the sixth-largest moon
Where I found myself among no other place that I'd rather be

Upon Europa
Tuesday, March 15, 2016
Topic(s) of this poem: discovery,moon,self discovery
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