Adrift

If I was ever lost in space

I would not think of me..

I’d see my life juxtaposed

To the rest of humanity.

An explorer once important,

Now an invisible item…

Burning up in outer space,

Dying on a timeline infinitum.

Death by drowning is peaceful,

Air to water, is birth in reversed…

Becoming adrift in the universe,

Is a fate no man’s rehearsed.

A dog and a chimpanzee,

Deserve a second look. 

Both sent to die in outer space,

Both rarely mentioned in a book.