Ode To This Moment Poem by Sylvia Frances Chan

Ode To This Moment

10 degrees during the morning breakfast
20 degrees during the afternoon lunch
no, no brunch

not to the moon for a while

not even to weightlessness
somewhere over 100,000 meters

because you don't have a home, let alone a house,
you float between space and earth
does this have much value?

you can't come home yet
by long after
don't live in it yet

immediately you are back on solid ground
where you should eat real food every day
and not one small can for 6 months

feel free to ask André
our own astronaut
he just smiles proud of his result

but he will never tell the big secret

that he had amused himself with
only turning himself and always turning himself around

keep turning and turning
during your airspace journey

take samples with you when you get back,
such as: lunar sand, clay, pebbles and earth
on your return journey?

more beautiful are the colored stones
at the Telaga Warna on West Java
nature-beauty in Indonesia alone

what a great waste
those 4 minutes to space
not even a race!

biggest wasters are
these world famous Ego-trippers!

© Sylvia Frances Chan - All Rights Reserved
Anno Domini 23 Juli 2021