Space settlement

Poem

Space Settlement

My father was one of the first men

Who wined the moon for materials

(How I loved to say their names when I wan young- aluminium, titanium, Iron, silicon) to make gigantic tublar wheels that weightlessly

For ever float revolving gently in the vastness of space

When I wan ten, my father came to live in this space settlement

What joy, what unbridled pride my parents felt to be among those chosen

To be the sole saviors of the human race

Supplying it with solar energy, essential,

As its precious stocks of oil and coal ran out.

My only brother and I, we did not doubt we would be happy here.

We were the chosen children of chosen parents.

Near the low-gravity hub of the wheel

The sapphire swimming pool was our perpetual delight.

Diving we fell slowly, light as winged seeds

Performing effortlessly aerial acrobatics

No earth-bound Olympic Champion could ever rival

From the bottom pushing off we dived upwards, exulting

Emerging like dolphins, frisky as flying fish

For a year or more we never wearied of our aquatic games

Then suddenly without apparent reason, we did grow weary

Each day the same hours of reflected sunlight the same temperature each night.

Each day not even a breeze. And worst of all no sky no clouds

No beastm birdm butterfly. The same dull food each day-

Wheaten bread, maize porridge, fish, rice, vegetables, soya beans.

I began to hate my new friends, even my own brother

We were always quarrelling,

I longed for my old friends, to play the games we played,

Talked about familiar things and happenings.

Longed, longed for my former life.

Exiled for ever, I can never return

Each night now I Dream I am home again.

My opinion : I think the person who write this poem really good about expressing his’ feelings. I found it easy to think about the situation at that time. Too bad that he longed his friends and life on earth