Silver Water World
Spun out with no controls
Space craft exploded on the water
Solid impact on the emptiness
No land on this strange world
Saved by a fractured pod
Captured capsule by gravity strong
On this giants silver waves
All else disintegrated in the impact
In an instant on the day destroyed
Somber sounds of liquid waves paraded
In their solemn prayer
Not much else remained
Crashed and sunk as pods might do
Stranded between two dim lights
Brown suns that never know the night
Glaring down from opposite directions
Both horizons mocking this surviving soul
And lights the one and only mercury like sea
My new home light years away from anything
Alone, alive, breathing alien thin air in desperation
Pushed on forever to survive the silver life before me
Thirst forced me to consume the foreign drink
Sweet but could mean something dire yet unforeseen
Red wings for buoyancy propel me through the water
Floating in the open is my only option
Not much else to do but to go on
Nutrients in the sea seem to sustain me
Death by hunger or by thirst are not by choice
A curse much worse than that of crashing
But I enjoy the solitude and void
My damaged scales, torn metallic wings will hold me here
Eternity is just a blink away
Oval eyes open wide to see
Flying days are over now
Under the unforgiving suns
Dragon dreams could not have hatched a better plan
From a better hardened egg or shell
Or imagined a better ending to a day
Back on the home planet from where I came
*Authors note: My short story with this same title is posted in my Articles section of Poetry Soup. Feel free to contact me at [email protected] for any requests. Thank you for visiting. Earl
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