Category: Spaceman
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Earthbound
I survived the crash, survived the harsher waves that splashed. I survived the breaching fires that crawled towards me like starving rats. I survived the weight of a spacesuit, clinging to me like moss; it took to the last second to finally take it off. I survived the atmosphere that I thought would singe my…
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Atmospheric Pressure
Therospheric pulls, gravitational waves, So close to earth, caught in my earthling ways. Homeward bound — to touch the soft ground. Return to the heavens, I hear again sound. Mesospheric ice, it’s so cold that it burns, A meteorite in night, unbound it returns. Consumed in a blaze, it can shrivel to dust. My spacesuit…
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Orbit
A green jetpack, all reaching, slings me into space. I left my martian boots below and that plutonian mask. They weighed me down for so long once, but I let it drift down that river, Stix. It’s where the past belongs. Jupiter, I see it, the grandest of them all. Thunder-eyed, the storm gazed my…
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Winter Bones
Today I feel as cold as winter bones, As harsh and unforgiving as icy rocks; Sharp and lifeless as is folded steel, Drifting like a spaceman far above. Tethered, I see the Earth below. The swirl of light and skies, Laughter booms, I hear it from here. The world glows with life… Still, I feel…
Writings by Samson Mousa 