Earth to Ursa (poem)

Earth to Ursa, up there so far

I’m still here breathing the earthbound air

Looking up to the north star

Wondering if you’re still up there

Are you staring out the window glass

Are we looking at the same setting sun?

As another earthbound day comes to pass?

Thinking back to when our lives had barely begun

Spent those silly summer days in the backyard

Chasing aliens painted up on the wall

Back then when the galactic war wasn’t so hard

Before you had to move in the coming fall

You took me to the planetarium

Told me about your mission to Mars

Distant places and how you wanted to see them

Back when the future felt like it was ours

I don’t remember where I was when I saw the rockets ignite

When the fuselage came to life and left me maroon

I still sit on the roof looking up on a colder winter night

Hoping to see you past the crescent moon

Earth to Ursa, is it lonely up in space?

A million miles away in some distant galaxy

Lightyears away from this human place

Or am I trapped in a terran fallacy?

I still think that I might see you when you come down

And a part of me hopes you’re thinking of a voyager twin

But then I wonder if he’s keeping you chained upon the ground

Stuck to the earth and its sullen spin

You were meant to fly in the universe, a new frontier

And so I’ll try to smile to the stars

I was meant to be earthbound, standing here

Earth to Ursa, I know you’ll go far

Earth to Ursa, there’s a galaxy to explore

Turn the engine on and leave the world so blue

Solve the great mystery and so much more

Earth to Ursa, you’ve got wonderful things to do