PART 1: ASTRONAUTS

We trained for years for this.

Our engineers have studied

To build new rockets,

And to fix our past mistakes.

Now, we can’t make mistakes.

As we make our way,

All of the way.

We’re the first to travel

To a new place like Mars.

Me and two others

Drift almost astray,

As we sail through the dark

And into a new day.

As we enter, the ship’s engulfed

By burning flames of Mar’s air.

The land rumbles as we land

Into the new yet old air.

We see some movement near a hill,

And out from behind, new things appear.

PART 2: INHABITANTS

As we awake to a burning light

We notice it’s not a star

But flames not so far.

As it approaches we hide behind

A hill, not so tall but oh quite wide.

When the earth shook we made a stir.

Then we asked since when, and what for?

We wonder lots and heard a thunk,

And peeked to see a man, from earth.