The Eagle Has Landed

 

That famous phrase came

over every television and radio

when the Apollo craft first touched down on the moon,

I was a teenager on the summer,

working at a fair, watched the event

on a black and white 13 inch television inside of a trailer.

 

The war continues in Vietnam,

President Kennedy dream lived on after his death

and we, a nation in turmoil and trials

stilled sent that American Eagle in flight,

walking where no man had ever been.

 

Though the program ended

Nasa focusing on the shuttle,

this moment of triumph still declared

how the human spirit refuse to stop reaching

where dreams and stars.

 

Getting side tracked by so many challenges,

even enduring when martyrs must fall in the quest,

yet moving on with our resolve

to let our imaginations dare to invent

gateways to the impossible.