SPACE DUMP

SPACE DUMP

Take a look into the sky

At those twinkling stars

On a crystal clear night,

It might be a constellation,

Or the edge of a galaxy

Oh, if only we were right.

What we thought we could see

Far out there in the dark

Were just far off planets and worlds,

But, they’re just TV satellites

And lots of  space flotsam,

Which, into orbit they’ve been hurled.

When wishing on a star

Looking dewy eyed into the sky,

With your favourite girl linked arm in arm.

Be careful they don’t start falling.

As a lump of metal, falling from space,

 Could do you a whole lot of harm.

Our planet is full

With allsorts of crap

There’s rubbish all over the place,

It’s time to start

Dumping it elsewhere,

That’s why there is a space race.

Billions spent each year

To try to get to Mars,

It isn’t to seek

Out new life forms,

It’s for somewhere to dump

Our scrap cars.

Phil Hall  April 2013