No New Beginnings

No, new beginning There is an enormous hole on the surface of Mars the biggest hole in the solar system, so gigantic One can put mount Everest into the hole and there would be a place for many more mountains. At the bottom, there is oxygen enough, to sustain plants, a lake, palm trees, yes, even fruit trees and animal life-like friendly, glowing serpents. For millions of years, this Martian paradise had existed till a long, lost airship, slowly descended Most of the spaceship’s crew had perished but for a couple, the ship landed with a bang so loud, fish flew out of the lake and palm trees Shook and lost leaves and paper tigers aborted. A new Adam& Eve story? not quite The female astronaut, a man who had transited to a woman who preferred to use the pronoun them the male astronaut was a man who thought he was born into the wrong body, and with this, a new beginning wore a skirt of a banana skin. In the end, two old men, who kept a creature looking like a dog and askew by other animals because of their clinging nature as a company; without a God there was no miracle, therefore no new beginning.