Colonize Planet Mars With 40 Billion To Support Life? Poem by Luke Easter

11/5/13 a study claims 40 billion planets could support life,
Not 40, not 40 thousand or 40 million, could that be right?
“Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences” finds,
Astronomical numbers that undoubtedly boggles our mind.

Potentially life-sustaining planets comes from a telescope,
750 thousand light years to get there is there any real hope?
How much bigger than formerly believed is the Milky Way?
More importantly, what does that have to do with life today?

12/06/06, Scientists are elated because there are,
Signs of water flowing freely on the Planet Mars,
And this according to their community is by far,
The most exciting thing since the forming of stars.

However, don’t get on your high horse too soon,
But 1st mankind has to spend time on the Moon,
Then again here’s my opinion for what it’s worth,
We should be more concerned about life on Earth.

Our war in a foreign land that many are calling lost,
Way too many limbs, lives, with billions as the cost,
Looks like not just the soldiers are coming home blind,
Mars is front-page news, what’s going on in the mind?

There’s MS, autism, cancer, Alzheimer’s, AIDS but first it’s HIV,
And it’s not just confined to monkeys but humans in every country,
With no cure, and arm and a leg for medicine only to slow it down,
Poorest nations can’t dig graves fast enough & bury underground.

I dare not talk about crime because that’s a sermon on it’s own,
Finally, in Ohio an investigation into fraudulent mortgage loans,
Cleveland Clinic makes billions but yearly taxes that do not pay,
Something about being a non-profit organization, or so they say.

Most certainly tops in medical research, they are health care pioneers,
Money making staffers reside outside the city because crime they fear,
Then no one worth anything wants their child enrolled in public schools,
Guess the powers that be in, “City Hall” are just robots without any clues.

CEO’s in salary, bonuses & buyouts are paid in stocks with $$$ in the billions,
Workers laid off, lost pensions, no health care benefits, number in the millions,
Reverend Rodgers and Deacon Anderson, two guys at a local Baptist Church,
Employed 75 years collectively losing everything, who cares if they were hurt?

Okay, where’s the President, Congress, The Senate or members of The House?
Snubbing their noses like great big elephants while being effective as a mouse,
They promised if we’d vote for them, these politicians would have our back,
It was long before anyone had ever heard of a desert community called Iraq.

On this side of the, “Free World” we’ve spent billions to bail out banks,
While in, less friendly nations we’ll spend billions on guns and tanks,
To close the economic gap for them as ours widens don’t you think?
Our domestic beer vs. Cuban cigars & imported Cognac we’ll drink.

Congressional approval signed by the President they pass a bill to rob,
Real hard working Americans like janitors protesting loss of their jobs,
We complain to our leaders but they have nepotism from Uncle Sam,
Do our votes really mean anything, is this just another political scam?

October 2010, again we cry water on a plant distant as the stars,
But did they find equal housing, education and happy hour bars?
Cures for cancer, MS, racism, hatred, an end to domestic abuse?
And if it has the same old stuff here on earth then what is the use?

Roughly 1 in 5 planets like our own sun have an Earth orbiting around,
Imagine how many gambling casinos could fit in a billion downtowns,
Might every jock quite possibly live their MLB, NFL or NBA dreams?
And playing each other once every 100,000 years with 9,000,000 teams.

I wonder how or what will be said in the upper echelon conversation,
Most can only imagine the steps necessary in making a reservation,
”Oh you should have been there, we danced graciously amid the stars,
Dinning on starship shrimp and lobster at the Hilton on Planet Mars.”