Perhaps ‘love letter’ is a bit too strong-<\/p>\n
a letter of admiration, perhaps?<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
An isolation song to hum to,<\/p>\n
floating alone in your little time capsule,<\/p>\n
waiting for a channel change.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
How’s the view? Does the dust swirl,<\/p>\n
long-dead lava tubes echoing sussurations<\/p>\n
of your breathing in the thinnest stratosphere?<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Do you look back and think it was worth it?<\/p>\n
At the footprints in moon dust, like Crusoe,<\/p>\n
admiring the anthropology of it all, the need to look further.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Do you look at Mars in envy, a low red neighbor,<\/p>\n
and think that I could be there, waving at you?<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Man of the moon, do you ever dream,<\/p>\n
was there a time life could have thrived around you,<\/p>\n
does the thin oxygen pop in your brain<\/p>\n
and do you dream of green, and blue, and grey?<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Man in the moon, I am sailing soon,<\/p>\n
on a ship of forged stardust and human hope,<\/p>\n
I am sailing soon to reach you,<\/p>\n
to breathe as you do, and wave to an earth that waits<\/p>\n
for our landing once again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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