View From the Second Comet - Act 2

At Cape Canaveral Working for CNN Carolyn Devonshire With a news bulletin In less than three days The second comet will hit home All the worlds governments are working To halt it's destructive roam Here at NASA They are preparing a shuttle To carry a weapon Deadly but subtle Scientists from Russia China and Japan Are working together To save our lands Inside these hangers A mission is planned To arm a shuttle Electronically manned Aboard it will carry A weapon of power Once it strikes home We await the meteorite shower In the NASA control room The count down begins Our world as we know it Under three days from its end The engines roar As the rocket zests Inside the shuttle Is a cargo that's blessed As it hits Mach 23 It disappears from our view Beyond our world A mission so true With the comet in sight The shuttles doors now agape Releasing a small craft With flags of the world, proudly draped The shuttle that's followed This comet of death Captures the moment Man left it reft A craft coloured gold Approaches at speed Reaches the comet Blessed by all creeds A blinding light As bright as the sun Destroys the comet As the meteorites run The second shuttle Is peppered like earth But she makes it home Her witness, well worth On CNN Footage is shown The death of a comet In obliteration blown How many more Are lurking out there As we await their entrance We stand together, and beware http://www.thehighlanderspoems.com/fantasy-8.php