A Poem: Why Parents Fear Space Travel
by Steve Clark
The limits are endless.
We can send them there
but cannot bring them back.
Because of some miscalculation,
we could cause a soft landing
to badly slam the surface
or go pell-mell into that hell
of a place without anchoring,
where the nothing of is is.
Nothing we have seen or wanted—
no journeys, traumas, itineraries—
prepares us for this trajectory.
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