Earth Rise
It was the planet Earth
that rose that day. It filled my eyes,
it made me both an earthling
and an alien.
I watched the world float over my head;
a window of light in a limitless night.
Lovely and perfect.
‘Earth Rise,’ they called it,
Life Magazine 1968.
A world away now.
My name could be Anders,
but it’s not
I am a child
being taken on a moon-ride.
Copyright © Eric Ashford | Year Posted 2023
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