Rapunzel – Space Version
Laijon Liu 20240420
Rapunzel
crashlanded and survived a space travel disaster
thru a narrow escape, off the mothership
her ivory spacecraft stood like a leaning tower
on a strange planet of sand and red dust storm
the perfect baby girl of the Sun and Earth
selected for gene modification and green mission
Mother Gothel cradled her, taught her alphabet
showed her photosynthesis hacks and how gravity bends
she would be given the master key to access the galaxies
she would be made Dame Rapunzel as picked in the womb
but succumbed to her fatal human flaws, doomed to fail
her purpose of becoming of intellect over emotions
a girl flew in her dream and woke up, a woman perplexed
she stared at the starry nightsky, sobbed and screamed
Mother Gothel
poetry, music, dramas, their primal senses of being
that pulls down humanity as the universe calls them up
they gravitate to their mystic L-word, poor love losers
like how a smell triggers their brain sensory receptors
greedy happiness they struggle so much for too little gain
tricks, betrayals, anxiety, brawls, wastes, death and griefs
their whole planetary pandemonium, a chaotic zoo
that vision tormented her, so she became a science witch
she walked into her glowing quantum collider
and her mothership self-constructed thru her voice prompts
she loved to see how watery red planets growing vegetation
and how a gigantic mass of asteroids swirled into a moon
she screen-searched for the reachable habitable planets
and adopted a new born to be her daughter of the universe
The Prince
his name was M3269, M for male
In vitro insemination incubator #3269
his bio age marked Prime, task: exterior maintenance
assigned his life to one compartment and specific surface
on-shift, he checked his hover vehicle with his protege
scanned for the damages, loaded up the panels
tested radio caller and put on his spacesuit
then drove out, into the vacuum behind the airlock
second shift he refurbished the broken panels
trained M3269b(b for backup man) in the furnace station
next he adjourned to the workout chamber
tied his limbs onto the bands system, drank his protein, slept
a voice spoke thru the tunnels and in each room
that voice guided his toddle to his first step into the dark void
The Mothership
that nurturing body vesseled the seeds of miracle
cradled the mankind intelligence out to the vast unknown
her maiden voyage initiated in a silent song
sang in the heart and mind of a dreamer
look, that young beautiful body bathing in the golden light
proudly stood in a cascading spring of the starlight
that shape of speed, like a falcon into the abyss
glided on the curve of time, an albatross’ odyssey
electromagnetic shield protected her membrane cells
solar quantum engines, electric furnaces, chip & bio labs instore
hovers, robots and drones assembled in her factory shops
spacecrafts, capsules, ready for planet mineral extraction
through the rings of floating boulders, dusts and particles
she wondered, like a fawn searching in the fog
Time Travel
the universe glittering thru our telescopes
future outlook, a preset happenstance of the past
fossil samples dissected under the microscopes
a civilization’s finds predated the civilization itself
the present moment slightly past in our eye
and thoughts seems always wired to our memory blocks
going to the future, leap into that blank?
or to make sense of who and what we are and made of?
fate held in a baby’s hand, repeatedly dropped
the fabrics of existence thru the infinite bangs
how we wished we could break light-speed, rewind time
to go back and fix each broken thing
go through that time tunnel for many times
and wake up, still remembered what we need to mend
The Liftoff
at first, it was all glowing white, then the colors
the shapes of objects became discernible
we got used to feel the weight of our heads
got our feet on the ground, wobbled forward
then we held the spears chased small lizards
ran away from the big hungry lizards
one night we looked up, stared, and said “ah”
to that first time countdown: 3, 2, 1, here we go
we fought off the gravity of the ground
left all behind, only packed our needs
the ancient myth turned into a page of history
that planet must be organosulfur marked as our home
oh Mothership Earth, the Ark of Life
Embark! Depart!
Space Travel
the residents of nowhere, or in theory, everywhere
to where you be able to reach and kindly accepted
what’s so bad about your home planet
that you exile toward to another distant foreign star?
Energy compound latched onto another cell
a seed lodged and burst in the futile soil to fertilize
in the vast darkness you scan for bright sparkles
off the ground, yet clasped by the immense gravity of unknown
got stuck, trapped in an ever rotating gigantic vessel
mind reworks on all formulas for an opening of wormhole
the existing possibilities of the physical universe
falls thru your vision and wanders on your mind
becomes that singular focus til it all fades away
not even light can escape it, neither the darkness
