Mars
For many an historical generation,
you scintillated man’s imagination.
The subject of numerous films and books,
your presence was worth some astronomers’ looks.
From writers such as H.G. Wells and Jules Verne,
the fire of man’s curiosity would burn.
With mankind’s ingenuity and labor,
could we travel to this planetary neighbor?
If we arrived there, what would we find?
Are there living creatures similar to earth’s kind?
With man’s advancing technology,
space probes to the planet became reality.
However, what we discovered was not as expected.
Hardly any form of life was detected.
With cold desert-like terrain and desiccated atmosphere,
no life as we know it could live here.
No canals as previously conjectured would exist.
As a planet with life, you are crossed off our list.
Copyright © Robert Pettit | Year Posted 2012
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