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Contributed by: Delores Risberg on 5/3/2006

From out of, we know not where.
Comes this huge and mighty stone.
Soaring through the heavens,
up there, she's but a mite.
So fast she goes.
She's red hot white.
Through space she travels,
leaving behind her a trail of light.
Out of the north,
this iron rock, makes tracks in the sky.
Our earth, in her sight.
A visit, a must, our paths will clash.
For the same space we take.
Neither can give way.
She holds her course.
Her noise hurts the air.
The blinding light,turns night to day.
Blinds all that are near.
She hits the earth, with such a force,
it shakes rattles and rolls.
Melts the earth, and the stones, turns it into gas.
Created a hole miles around, deep enough to lose herself.
For thousands of years, she's not yet found.
A mushroom cloud, rose up to fill the space, of absence air.
she tore out on her way down.
The atmosphere was filled with dirt and grime,
for a long time to come.
What life had lived, was all snuffed out.
Her visit not yet undone.
The trees all died, their branches bare.
No light, was left for them to grow.
The inner earth, cracked under the strain, of her landing.
Cracked, grounded, flattened out,
she could have landed softer.
This ancient piece of star,came traveling from afar.
No warning did she give, on her impending visit.
To just drop in was her demure.
The damage done.
The scars are left.
Erosion mellows the scene, for the duration of time.
This red-hot lady, from we know not where.
Has left her imprint, on our earth,
for all eternity.

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Submitted By: Tabitha Dial

posted on 5/3/2006 @ 1:01:42 PM

Rated Story

Nicely written. I'd love to hear why you wrote this and when you first became interested in meteors. Post more!

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