FIRST FOOTPRINT OF MAN ON MOON *
I
Remembers other in a faraway millennium:
First footprint of the first ape which became biped
Raising for the first time its eyes to the infinite.
One came down from the tree,
The other came down from the nave.
II
Inside of an egyptian tomb they found after millenniums
Human footprint on the ground.
Someone we don't know and who never imagined to know of us.
After billions of years
Footprint of Armstrong on the Moon
Will cause the same mystery...
O human immortality! You would be greater
Than the planet's immortality!
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* This poem is included in the collection of NASA by bail Neil Armstrong.
INFINITY CHANCE
Every movement of galaxies, the regularity
of comets, the position of stars, the orbits of
planets, the universal gravitation, the light
composition, physical chemical laws... everything
our science proves with exact laws since millions
of years-light which represent one second in
Eternity. In another second all can happen
differently.
A part our Cosmos may have been begot by the
Great-Explosion, another part by the big nebula
splinters, another part also by errant energy condensation
through out the space or by the accumulation of lost
materials in sidereal Infinite. Infinite which all the
hypothesis can be contained in.
Universe wander on seas of Infinite and they
form themselves as wind form by chance the
dunes of the shores.
"PIONEER 10"
Even after years the Sun explodes
Destroying every planet,
You will sail with golden effigy of Man recorded in you,
Without atmosphere not to corrode your metal,
Without gravitation not to stop your march.
If God exists
There will be a harbour, a purpose to you.
If God does not exist, we exist
In the unique vestige of Mankind,
Wandering eternally among the stars
Like a solitary shell
Without the resonance of the Infinite sea.
I REMEMBER
I remember Pompeii, Karnak, Memphis!...
Mankind will go, not a single man will remain.
Martian archeologists will study the dead Earth.
Full of wonder they will reconstruct the Eras.
Not even longing will pertain to us.
ASTRAL SOLITUDE
We are alone in the universe!
Useless to claim for the gods!
The Man has to count on himself
To lower the suffering in the planet...
Who could love us -
The lowest being in the immensity of the Cosmos?
Only the dog love us, without having created us.
"An atlas of our galaxy which should dedicate one page
for each star of the Milky Way would need 10 millions
of volumes of 10 thousand pages each, just
to describe each stellar system."
How dare we be remembered?
How to find a way out in this labyrinth?
THE THEATRE OF THE GALAXIES
We do not know in which scene we entered,
do not know which role we represent, nor from which
scene we made our exit. We do not know the plot
of the story, do not know directs the drama,
nor in which place the theatre of the universe is placed.
ASTRAL ERA VISION
I
Not even in the language of another species -
surely you must speak it-
Not transmitted by sounds - you can paint what you see!
All visions of the mystical and prophets!
All the impact of the Beautiful
Felt by all those that lived in the star!
All imagination of the crazy which we shall never know!
All the dreams that have never been revealed by the anonymous genius!
All the Dante's creations more than he not described!
All the things Marco Polo had seen and had not written about!
All the wonder of the archeologists
On estimating by ruins the splendor of yore!
All the adventure of the navies, pioneers
Finding out untrodden routs, islands and continents!
All those things summed up!
All the alarm of the first man on Earth
And of the first being of infinitely bigger worlds!
II
In the most remote worlds of the Infinite
Precipices having on its bottom radiant cosmos!
The most strange ocean: the sea is waveless absolutely motionless!
In the Poles of Infinite icebergs of congealed light
Bearing rivers of stars,
Which throw down headlong,
Into radiant cataracts!
The cosmos disappearing suddenly and appearing after
Like subterranean rivers!...
You shall see all this
You shall be more marveled than we shall be!
But you will loose the surprise
When you came into the galaxies of Death and
into the mansion of God.
YOU WILL WINGED
You will winged! Inventions will take you to the stars!
As great as the Future! As steady as the Past!
You will pierce stellar secrets!
And meet beings of other Species!
Ah! never again will you suffer the anguish
Of being only one to think the Universe!
YOU OF ANOTHER MILLENNIUM
You of another millennium!
What will become of our exhausted orb?
Some martial one will remember to make of it
A blazon in a flag.
Perhaps increasing the old pain:
They will make of it a place of exile, a presidio,
Or an astral beacon for lost ships...
Painters, luckiest ones, will picture it from another space;
Lovers! In your honeymoon will have the most beautiful alcove;
All in it was a work of love!
Teachers in the History class will point the sky to the children...
The humble will be consoled:
They will see high above them Nothingness consummate!
ANIMALS OF ASTRAL ERA
You depart, o man, to the ample and astral adventure
Leaving behind you your irrational brothers.
Remember! When you lived among animals you were more human...
The ox: the only one that left behind it
The greatest footstep - that one of the ploughs.
The horse: it fought with you at the wars
The only one mixed its blood with yours.
The camel: you were alpinist in its gibbosity.
The only one that shared your solitude in the deserts.
The dog: it watches the imaginary while you were sleep,
Like gods, the greatest friend of men.
We don't beg you - o! we shall haven't this grace! -
Take our antiquated paws to the dazzle of another cosmos.
But then you are in the star and you look at the sky
And see the Earth dumb and lonely
Think a minute about us,
Of those six feet you initiated your worldly march
Four of them were ours.
MARTIANS
Martians! How many wonders we imagine
About your minds and organisms!
We wish Kronos doesn't print on your faces -
As on ours - his finger prints.
ASTRAL EMIGRATE PRAYER
God! The world is overcrowded!
When the mouths are starving,
The hands are plenty of weapons.
Give's some light so that we may able to overcame
- Quicker than the growth of the species -
To live the exhausted Earth
And the find another stars!
Another paradise
Let's not loose it through the apple or through the bread.
When we shall have filled them
Let's always find out another cosmos,
This has never failed to you!
INTERPLANETARY BEINGS
Interplanetary beings! one day, alone, you shall go into the space Saharas
You will desire to see again the old star.
May be your homesickness shall find nothing:
No ruins, works, landscapes
Calcined by the past atomic era...
But, o! in the nocturnal solitude of the star
You - who shall measure the time light-years -
You shall remember the time when you used to recken it by the moon!
I DO NOT KNOW
I do not know, in the spheres you will inhabit,
If you will have the familiar sceneries:
flowers, oceans, mountains.
I do not know if tomorrow larger suns, stronger light,
Will clear things better for you,
I do not know the machines you will still invent,
If you will create artificial beings,
If mixing with another Species you will make a Super-species.
I only know: always you will die horizontally,
Always the sky will be young, since wrinkleless,
Always a tear clean the eyes
In the universal dirtiness.
THE SEA
Even if you live in a remote star
I shall hear a little your history
As you hear me in a shell far away.
From galleys to plane-carriers entombed in my bosom -
I saw your progress,
In the wounds of the shipwrecked - I saw your wars,
In the submersed treasures - I saw your perdition.
THE SAND
Faith fully I followed all your steps.
When alight in another planet,
You will carry sand yet in the sole of your feet!
Your vanity was perpetuated by m in marble and bronze!
When I did not give them
I sculptured the purest statue: the Death's-Head.
THE SKY
I am your eternal confident:
You look on me the hours of distress!
Hydrogen-Bomb! Famine! Blood! Do not grieve!
Beyond the Earth perhaps there is also despair.
Penetrating all cosmic recesses
The sky knows pains you will never know!
MOON'S ADVICE *
Conquering the ether you will reach me,
Invading my valleys and craters.
But do not bloody them! Before you
Your visions had already reached here!
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* Done in 1957.
SUN'S FAREWELL
Tomorrow you will live in another Universe!
Do not forget there this little old man -
Light - for you I have sculptured all forms!
Remember in the Apogee! Even in the Unconscious
I engendered the forms of your dreams!
EARTH'S FAREWELL
We know nothing as we roll in the sepulchral space!
I revolve around myself thus never finding truth.
Only the Moon, loyal in adversity, never turned the face from us,
And still lights the dark of our existence...
O God!
Even in the greatest afflictions we never saw Thee!
Thou came to the Earth when Thou made the first Man.
Thou certainly will come when the last man leaves...
THE STAR'S PROPHECY
You will walk sidereal roads! Longing I shall think:
I sheltered you in your cradle with my mantle of beauty,
I guided in your infancy your first steps!
The mystery will you seek in vain!
There among stars incommensurate you will understand
- Truth has the size of Infinite.
Man's true clock: the Hourglass.
It measure with sand the hours
Of things which will be sand...
The worm will eat away everything
But your shadow, your dream, your tear.
B. E., A. E.
Oh! You shall date B. E., A. E., before and after Earth!
Cosmic worms, o astral deaths,
Shall distray your sight inside out!
How much ignorance you shall take to another stars!
You shall never know
How much humanity you shall leave here!
How many buried cities and monuments
Your archeology shall never find!
How many undecipherable inscriptions -
O dead message in a dead language!
THE LAST MEN
When the last rocket leave the Earth,
By taking the last men
How sad will be the farewell!
On the quay nobody shall wave
Like the death when only ones says goodbye.
Stirred crew, at the deck,
Shall see you, o star,
Gradually diminishing in the distance.
Their hearts shall also diminish more and more
for the homesickness.
THREE HYPOTHESES ON TRAVEL TO ANDROMEDA *
You will travel in the speed of light
Coming back 56 years older.
Earth will be four millions years older.
You will find a high civilization.
You will not understand them and neither will they about you.
They will study you as a piece of museum.
You will find a devastated planet
Reduced to the Cavern Era.
You will not understand them and nor will they about you.
After the infinite solitude of spaces
You will find the solitude of the planet
Entirely extinguished of beings and life.
You will not be understood, nor will you understand
Those who passed away...
But in a loft of the universe
Inside a unique being, there will be fitted
All nostalgia for the human species.
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* "... is one of the best poems written on the
future of man - and about the future of our universe." (International Poets Academy)