Houston We Have a Problem Here On Planet Earth
Stardate 19 Hundred and Something
The Minutes taken
At the last annual general meeting of NASA
The Great and Good of Finance , Politics
Must have sat down together at some point
A gathering
Of the Distinguished League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
Or National Geographic and Scientific Society
To discuss funding the Exploration of Space Travel
To go where no man has gone before
Place a human being on the moon
Escape gravity and earths atmosphere
Forward thinking outside the Box
Calculating an infinite amount
Of Mathematical equations and Scenarios
The Greatest minds we could summons
Took up the Mantle placed in front of them
Could Man really step foot on the surface of the Moon
And Yes we Can
The Answer came back
Affirmative
Yes we can
But Houston we have a problem here on planet earth
Would these great minds of our time
Not be better spent
Coming together
To solve the more pressing
Problems we humans face here on planet earth
First
Escaping
Starvation
War
Suffering
And destruction of the earths natural resources
Are to the average Joe like you and me more pressing things
To cling onto
Than Astronauts Dreams
Copyright © Christopher Flaherty | Year Posted 2018
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