Earthbound (To the aging hero of fantastic adventures)

Jaco Fouche

You've seen the raging birth of stars,
And the death of raging same.
You've battled your way to the brink of Mars
And fallen in love with the solar flaring flame.

You've been trapped by space-time quarks and quirks,
While supernovas lit up the years.
You've been stuck in noisy rocket works,
And Frustrated by backyard stellar engineers.

You've had to ponder quantum physics,
When the Electroids went on a spree.
To try to get a fix on them,
Proved an impossibility.

You've undertaken comprehensive trips,
Across the reaches of the universe.
You've double-parked amazing ships,
Where smugglers dealt in time and slurs.

It's been rough, and to your credit,
You've often had to go it alone.
But over time you've learned to grin and bear it,
now The longest trip is going home.

LitNet: 18 March 2005

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