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Date Posted: 18:34:48 02/06/03 Thu
Author: Ronald G. Auguste
Author Host/IP: 198.81.21.43
Subject: The Columbia Shuttle's Disaster: THEY SAW THE STARS




THEY SAW THE STARS

(For The Columbia Seven)

L. Clark, K. Chawla, R. Husband, I. Ramon,
D. Brown, M. Anderson, W. McCool --
In life, and in death, each of them has won
A True Hero's crown at the Astronaut's School.

Noble of looks and traits, of different states,
In glory they spread stardust at our gates.

They flew the skies in moments sliced from time,
To bear grand visions to the stars from Earth;
But fate decided that that flight -- sublime! --
Would be the one to circumscribe their birth.

Though fate ordained the end for The Grand Seven,
They saw the stars while plummeting from Heaven.

Now indecision can't construe the cause
Of the earth-shaking end to that event --
Could engineers have waived some moral laws?
Had bureaucrats withheld from what was spent?

To save time, or a dollar, here and there,
Did we make those Brave Seven disappear?

We shall not know, for who can truly tell
What happened in that boundless reach of sky?
We'll let tears fall to honour them, who fell,
Yet none of us can deduce how, or why….

Since time began, we've glimpsed the Universe.
We'll still seek stars through skies we now traverse.







02/05/2003

Copyright © 2003 by Ronald G. Auguste

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