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 earlschumacker@yahoo.com for any requests. Thank you for visiting. Earl