The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #18170   Message #179068
Posted By: Áine
15-Feb-00 - 08:48 PM
Thread Name: Song Challenge! Part 7
Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! Part 7
Here ya go, luv.

To Eros From N.E.A.R.

I come to map your icy plains,
And twirl among your boulders,
Hovering o'er the frozen hollows,
Solar panels caress your shoulders

My thrusters fire and gently
Send me into spatial orbit
I am the first to see the scene
As I make my microcircuit

A well formed rock of ice, of iron
The crescent moon shines beams
Upon a shadowed heart-like crater
Whose lip with space-frost gleams

From high kilometers your heart
Appears to me so still
But bidden closer by your pull
I can't resist your will

I suddenly am pulled away
Wild gyrations turning
Distant suns made rainbows
By my tortured rockets burning

A mystery, when gazed from Earth
Confused, but fuel maintaining
My sensors rise like red balloons
Eros again attaining

Deceptive, fluffy, marshmellow-like
Your stone cold mountains rise
Celestial attraction is your might
And no one hears my cries

The stars n'er spoke a word as drew
N.E.A.R. to clover-shaped ice mountains
Her fate sealed long ago, she crashed
Amidst his hoarfrost fountains.