Science Fiction - The Satellite Poem by Paul Warren

The rocket stood on the launch pad
With rocket fuel and oxygen leaking bad
The scientists had worked for over two years
Worked hard on the experiment without any fears

The countdown commenced for the launch of the rocket
From ten down to one it went down to the end of it
It left the launch pad in a rush of flame spewing out
Going faster and higher with each second about

It achieved its height and started the experiment
Scooping the sky for the samples for the job as it went
But something appeared to be wrong with the control
And the space craft turned over on its side in a roll

The NASA technicians frantically tried to get back control
But the harder they tried they couldn't reach this their goal
As it swung out of its orbit they projected its course onward
It would crash across Australia as to made its way westward

They tracked it as it came down with the US Marines on standby
As it streaked with a fiery tail making its way across the night sky
It gained speed with each second as the population watched it fall
Until it hit near Uluru making a wide crater blasting away all

No-one could get near the site as the molten rock cooled down
The first people to enter the site were scientists in protective gowns
Their instruments detected the satellite was buried far into the soil
And to retrieve it and what it had gathered would require great toil

So they set up a camp and called in the machinery that was required
And the local aborigines told the Dreamtime story as it transpired
It spoke of the fire that would streak in display across the sky
When a new age would commence and the time of man would go by

On the next day after the machinery arrived near the crash site
The guard saw movement around the centre of the hole in sight
There was a glowing purple creeper that started that day to move out
Now after six months it has covered the whole of the Australia Outback

Scientists ponder and plans are made to rid the earth of the plague
That menaces the Earth to cover the planet in a threat not vague
Experiments are made and one thing became to all very clear
The multiplying effect increases one thousand fold when water is near.

© Paul Warren Poetry