Cosmic Scare For the Homo Sapiens
COSMIC SCARE FOR THE *****SAPIENS
The shooting star across the span of the night sky
The blazing fiery trail of the burning meteorite
Through the thick atmosphere many can’t fly
Some fall causing craters of damage at impact site.
From the asteroid belt beyond Mars they all surge
Invade the innocent planets with cosmic velocity
In chunks of the solar system mass small and large
The deep craters record the impact’s brutal severity.
Asteroid impact is not merely a thing of space fantasy
The Cretaceous extinction and the Tunguska event
Testify their tryst with the earth on the space odyssey
History may repeat itself any day in the times present.
Scientists tracking the deviant astral bodies’ course
Spotted a huge one cruising toward the earth’s orbit
When the chance of impact in real time inevitably rose
They predicted the day and the time of the fated hit.
Annihilation the looming catastrophic event would cause
Would be so sudden unlike slow chaos of climate change
On the doomsday clock the shocked time would pause
The calamity would go beyond human perception range.
The predicted day arrived on the doomed human race
The clocks ticked menacingly to the zero hour of destiny
The world at halt came to know a rocket started to chase
The asteroid gone astray to thrust it out of earth’s gravity.
Precise rocket science achieved the successful mission
Averted the destruction by a terrestrial event so rare
That could take the *****sapiens to brink of extinction
Life on the blue planet survived yet another mortal scare.
February 11, 2018.
Copyright © Subimal Sinha-Roy | Year Posted 2018
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