Artwork by Art AI Gallery
Departed
we sat in bed on a Thursday
afternoon, held hands while we watchedPerseverance land on Mars, seek
the sands of past life, heard NASAscientists whoop and holler, high-
five each other, marveled at imagestransmitted from the red planet
back to our pale blue dot, listenedto the sounds of a distant sphere
traveling to our town, wonderedif we might be the last to find
the evidence of life departed