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Poem by Himanshu
a student at DPS-Delhi Public School in Delhi, India
'WONDERS OF UNIVERSE'
FROM THIS EARTH WE MOVE
DISCOVERING THE UNIVERSAL TALES THAT ARE FAIRLY TRUE
AS WE SAT FOR THE SPACE ALL OF THEM STARTED TO GAZE
ASKING QUESTIONS DEMANDING THINGS
AS IF DREAMING OF LOVELY FAIRY WINGS
SOMEONE SAID WHAT IF YOU WILL REMAIN THERE
I ANSWERED WE SHALL CALL YOU ALL THERE
ONE HOUR LEFT BUT WE WERE EAGER TO GO
AS IF THE TIME NEEDLE WAS NOT IN OUR PRO
TILL THEN IT INTRODUCE YOU TO MY COMPANIONS
JOHN, MILLER(LEADER),DAVID ARE THE CHAMPIONS
WHO HAVE MADE IT TO THIS EXPEDITION
WHICH IS TO DISCOVER THE WONDERS OF THIS UNIVERSE AND THEIR RELATION
*****
OUR JOURNEY IS NOW OLD A COUPLE OF DAYS
WITH OUR ROCKET MOVING IN FULL BLAZE
WITH VELOCITIES FASTER THAN SOUND AND HALF OF LIGHT
I TELL YOU ABOUT THIS INTERESTING FLIGHT
IN FRONT OF OUR WINDOW ARE MILLIONS OF STARS
APPEARING LIKE SOME SHINING SCARS
WHITENING THE SKY WITH THEIR LIGHT
AS SUN IS LOST IN MID FLIGHT
THE END OF OUR IS TOO NEAR
AND ALL THIS IS ADDING TO OUR FEAR
NO ONE KNEW WHAT IS TO COME ABOUT
AS THIS WAS A VERY CRITICAL BOUT
"THE KILLER HOLES ARE AT EVERY STEP
LET US BE PREPARED" DAVID SAID
AS WE HELD THE HANDS OF EACH OTHER
THEIR CAME AN ASTEROID LIKE FEATHER
"THIS IS THE START" MILLER SAID
JOHN AND ME WENT TO BED
WE CAN'T ACTUALLY LIE DOWN ON FLOOR
AS THE GRAVITY IS NO MORE
SO WE SLEPT IN THE AIR
WITH OUR BLOOD SEEMING TO FLOW THROUGH OUR HAIR
THE SUN NEITHER RISES NOR IT SETS
THE TIME SEEMS TO COME AT REST
*****
I DON'T KNOW WHAT DAY IT WAS
PERHAPS THE 7th OR 8th OF MAY
AS WE REACHED THE SIRIUS BAY
THIS SYSTEM HAS TWO STARS
ONE OF THEM IS A WHITE DWARF STAR
SEEING THIS WE CAME TO KNOW
MAN DIES BUT HIS DEEDS DON'T BOW
AS THIS STAR THAT CONTINUES TO SHINE
AND MANY OTHER STAR IT INCLINES
HERE OUR ROCKET SLOWED DOWN
AS THE GRAVITY AGAIN BOUNCED
BUT IT REGAINED THE SPEED AGAIN
AS WE LEFT THIS SIRIUS TRAIN
"LOOK!WHAT AHEAD" JOHN EXCLAIMED
ITS A NEUTRON STAR I EXPLAINED
FLASHING THE LIGHT ACROSS THE SKY
IT LOOKS LIKE AN ANGEL PASSING BY
IN ITS BEAUTY WE WERE SO MUCH DEEPLY LOST
THAT WE FORGOT WHERE WERE WE AND OUR ROCKET TOOK THE WRONG COURSE
*****
WE SOON REALISED WHAT HAS HAPPENED
BUT IT WAS TOO LATE AS THE ROCKET MOVED WITH A BLAZE OF PASSION
WE LOST CONTACTS WITH OUR EARTH STATION
AND OUR MIND WAS HAUNTED WITH EVIL ANIMATION
THIS WAS A TERRIBLE NIGHT
AND EVERYONE WAS HOPING A RAY OF LIGHT
THEN SOMETHING STRANGE HAPPENED
OUR ROCKET GAINED VELOCITY AND MOMENTUM
A BRIGHT STREAK OF LIGHT APPEARED
BUT BEFORE WE COULD DISCUSS IT SOON DISAPPEARED
DAVID SAID SOMETHING ADDING TO OUR FEARS
"IT IS THE BLACK HOLE FROM WHERE EVERYTHING DISAPPEARS"
THE PULL WAS STRONG WE COULDN'T RESIST
SHALL WE LIVE THE THING PERSIST
BUT MILLER STUCKED WITH AN IDEA
"LET ME MOVE OUT AND OPEN THE ESCAPE PIT
AS THE ROCKET ATTAINS VELOCITIES EQUAL TO C
YOU SHALL BECOME COMPLETELY FREE"
WE TRIED TO STOP HIM
BUT AWAY HE WENT
OPENED THE ESCAPE PIT DEFLECTED THE ROCKETS VENT
THEN SOMETHING STRANGE HAPPENED
AS THE TIME TENDED TO STOP THE LENGTH RECEIVED A MIGHTY DROP
SIR EINSTEIN'S IDEA SORED IN
AS THE LENGTH BECAME THIN
IN A MOMENT OF FLASH THE MASS SORED
THE NEXT MOMENT DAVID WAS LOST
HE WAS DRIVEN OFF BY THIS UNIVERSAL WAVE
OPENING ITS ARMS HE WENT IN THIS MYSTERIOUS CAGE
BUT WHAT HE HAD DONE WAS SOMETHING NEVER BEFORE
AS WE FLEW APART FROM THIS KILLER HOLE
*****
AWAY AND AWAY WE WENT
WITH MILLER NOT IN OUR CAMP
TO GET OUT OF THE FRETFUL DAYS JOHN WAS MADE OUR NEXT LEADER
A FEW DAYS AFTER WE SAW
STRONG LIGHT BEAMS TO AND FRO
TERROR STUCKED ABOUT THE THING
JOHN SAID"IT IS THE SAME BLACK HOLE AND THE SITUATION IS GRIM"
DAVID SAID I AM PREPARED
I WAS DUMB STRUCK IN ITS GLARE
BUT SUDDENLY THE TERROR SHIFTED
AS THE LIGHT BEAMS ALSO DRIFTED
THEY ARE THE ALIENS DAVID SAID
BEWARE!JOHN STRESSED
"BE READY WITH YOUR LASER GUNS
AND DON'T TRY EVER TO RUN
THE FIGHT WITH THEM DEEPENED
BUT GRADUALLY WE BECAME WEAKENED
WE WERE CAPTURED WITH OUR SPACESHIP IN WAY
AS THEY TOOK US MILLION OF LIGHT YEARS AWAY
MANY GALAXIES DO WE CROSS
LIKE THE SAILORS THAT CAME SEVEN SEAS ACROSS
BUT SUDDENLY WE RECEIVED A HARROW
AND WERE PUT IN PRISONERS BARROW
WE WERE TAKEN ON THE ROADS
WE COULDN'T UNDERSTAND THEIR PROSE
BUT WE KNEW THE THING WAS NOT OUR COURSE
MANY DAYS DO PASSED
IN THIS CITY WITH NO TREES APART
ALTHOUGH THE BUILDINGS WERE IMPRESSIVE
THE PEOPLE WERE AGRESSIVE
HUMANITY WAS LEFT FAR BEHIND
AND I WONDERED WHETHER OUR EARTH WILL FACE THE SAME REGIME
*****
JOHN SPOKE SOMETHING GOOD AFTER A LONG TIME
AS THE ALIENS STARTED A CONQUEST TO MAINTAIN THEIR REGIME
DECEIVING EVERYONE WE CREPT INSIDE ONE OF THE ROCKETS
AND AWAY IT WENT FROM THE ALIENS POCKETS
BUT A GIANT STOOD INSIDE
KILLED JOHN AT ONE SIGHT
AND PUSHED US OUT OF THE FLIGHT
CLOSE TO THE HEELS OF DEATH A MIRACLE HAPPENED
AS WE SUDDENLY RECEIVED A BONEY WEAPON
WITH IT WE CLAMPED AGAINST THE DOOR
OPENED IT AND KILLED THE WILD BOAR
AND AWAY WE WENT NOT KNOWING OUR END
*****
'MILKY WAY' IS CLOSE THE ROCKET SAYS
BUT WE CAN'T FIND OUR OLD SPACESHIP IN WAY
IS THE PATH RIGHT OR WRONG
OR WE ARE JUST BEING PLAYED UPON
WHAT TO DO WE ASKED
BUT SUDDENLY WE SAW OUR SHIP A LITTLE APART
AS I ENTERED IN OUR SHIP I SAW THE ALIENS FOLLOWING THE TRIP
HURRIEDLY I CLOSED THE DOOR
NOT KNOWING DISASTERS WILL BE MORE
SOMETIMES AFTER I REALISED
OH NO!I LEFT DAVID OUTSIDE THE FLIGHT
AT THIS POINT CAME A RAY OF LIGHT
AND THIS GAVE ME DELIGHT
CONTACTS WERE ESTABLISHED AGAIN
AS I REACHED THE SOLARS TRAIN
ALTHOUGH STILL FAR FROM EARTH I FELT I AM HOME AGAIN
*****
I HAVE REACHED THE EARTH AGAIN
FINDING A VERY DIVERSIFIED CHANGE
FOLLOWING THE RULES OF RELATIVITY
I HAVE REACHED JUST FIFTY
BUT MY JOURNEY IS TWO FIFTY YEARS OLD
SAY THE NEW BORNS AND THE OLDS
WITH NO ONE LEFT WHEN WE WENT
I TELL EVERYONE ABOUT THIS INTERESTING TREND
BUT I FEEL GUILTY OF WHAT I DID AND THINK OF DAVID
MAY BE HE STILL LIVES IN SOME OTHER WORLD
AND WILL REACH THE EARTH AGAIN
TOGETHER WE SHALL TELL THE TALE
OF OUR UNIVERSAL SAIL
LEAD THIS EARTH TO THE PATH
WITH PROSPERITY CLOSE APART
HUNT FOR THE MYSTERIES OF THIS WORLD
HEY!FRIENDS LETS DISCOVER THIS UNIVERSE.
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