The Trans-Antarctic Mountain Range

The cold wind of the Antarctic Cut any warmth from the sun We have come to measure the world warming That has been melting the ice away A satellite had mapped the whole of the continent And had found something strange in the Trans-Antarctic Mountains So an expedition was put together from the Mawson Station I volunteered to be part of the expedition crew We had flown to the mountains by a Hercules transport plane And loaded our snow tractors high with provisions So we set off in our two snow tractors As the morning sky was lit by a low lying sun As we neared the Trans-antarctic Mountain We could see the snow was melting away from everything Curiously there were stone structures revealing themselves These were odd shaped buildings not modern in nature So we drew lots to see who would go To explore the stone structures we found And I drew one of the winners So I prepared wondering what was in store We drove to one of the stone buildings And approached what looked like an entrance We walked through into what looked like a laboratory perfectly preserved There were alien looking contraptions everywhere We decided not to touch anything until we could have it studied I noted that there appeared to be some things missing We videotaped all we could see in the room And left it all as we as had found it On the way out I noticed some footprints in the snow These footprints led to snow tractor tracks We quickly radioed base and a drone to seek out the other snow tractor was sent up We quickly returned to our base The drone found the snow tractor after following the tracks As the camera focused in on the the cabin We saw that the crew was Chinese and they were armed And they were heading for an Xi'an Y-20 aeroplane parked in the snow They stopped at the plane and they stepped out Then taking a heavy box out of the tractor The box was quickly loaded on the plane and the tractor as well In no time the plane took off and flew away We reported this incident to Canberra It was about six months after what was the Antarctic Incident When reports started to come out of Wuhan in China Of a new disease that started to spread and kill I wondered what they had found in the Trans-antarctic Mountain Range. © Paul Warren Poetry