To The Moon and Back

To the Moon and Back You, rock of regolith, what exactly is your purpose? You control The tide is at your command The night light is at your command The inspiration of thousands is at your command But not I I, human, dare to challenge you You control the earth, but you cannot control my limits I plan to wave the flag of my home from your surface Not to mock you, but to remind us all of who is really in control I, human, have fired my rocket ships Apollo 11, be my beanstalk so I may climb beyond the clouds, and beyond the space They tell me to shoot for the moon, and even if I miss, I land amongst the stars, but I don’t intend to miss Here I stand, an astronaut, a human, on the landing platform, my sender and beacon to call me back home I, human, have trudged through your rock face Leaving traces, trails, and imprinting my foot upon your surface to say that I was here, walking upon the land you forbade me I, human, have returned home Brothers, sisters, peers, fellow human, why don’t you believe me? I have trekked on lands unknown by other men I, human, have been doubted Even through photo crystallization, you do not believe me The sun has lent my its light via regolith reflection, yet you do not believe it was me in that shadow The shadow of the pod I created, my vessel, my bean stalk Even in the light of the sun, you cannot see clearly that I, you, we can defy the limits of the moon. I human, am like a fallen king Am like a boy who cried wolf But I only cried wolf once, so why do you still not believe me? Fine, doubt me, fellow human But one day, I will walk again upon the forbidden land I will bound weightlessly like human kind before me has, and reenact what can only be done upon the surface of the secluded vacuum of regolith