Half Life, 66, and the Sands of Mars
Half life of mine
Estimated genetic active existence
66 is the number
132 it shall be, or more
If environment, experiences
Incidents, accidents
Which have makes me
What I am right now
Do not cut it shorter
From all the years
Of living that are to be.
Much I have, so far,
Lived and seen
From flowers and tears of love
To blood and tears of war
My time has enjoyed
The greatest human adventures of all
More than Da Gama, Cabral, Vespucci and Zheng He
Could ever foreseen
As they faced the great oceans of Earth.
We have become
Space navigators
Achieving the greatness
Of permanent existence in the skies
I want also to travel that far and beyond
Bathing in different shores
Under new Suns
And new views of our Sun.
When my time, and it will one day,
Passes into a permanent night,
Bury me in the sands of Mars
For visitors from afar
To wonder about
Who we were
What we have done
And where we are.
©Regis Cabral, Piteå, 16 January 2020
