Tall Enough to Reach the Top Shelf

Roots firm in reality
Atlas and Saturn rockets
Philosophy as old as man has eyes
My arms reaching ever outward
Fingertips stretching past the skies

Tasting vacuum at the edge of the atmosphere
Getting used to weightlessness
Moving on
Looking back
Seeing earth as a sphere

Lingering at our moon
Planting some flags
Tracking up the place
Pressing into the moon dust
Leaving an impression of my face

Launching again without a sound
Setting foot on mars
A year older in reality
Yet just a blink in time
Terraforming the planet
Building cities
Singing Interplanet Janet
With her galaxy girls

Growing bored with the god of war
Moving onward
Outward
Still rooted in the soil of Terra
Grabbing at other moons
Around other planets
Around other suns
Farther
Until having been so many places
That it is forgotten where I've been
The zig zag path across the universe
Branching and backtracking
Multiplying as I go forth
Just like it was written
Sometime
Somewhere
My roots
Once so strong and awesome
Now rusting ruins
An empty shell
To be puzzled over
No longer thought of as home
To a people too numerous to count
Scattered to the stars