Earth From Mars

Earth from Mars

I saw the Earth from Mars today.
NASA provided the eerie pictures.
We live on a blue dot against black nothingness,
Holding one light grey moon in orbit around us.
Later, the cameras zoomed in closer,
But, in my opinion, the photographic technology
Didn’t really improve our image.
We just seemed fuzzier, if bigger.

If time and space don’t make us better,
Why do we go to the trouble to make the pictures?
And why this strange fascination with our image from space
When we frustrate ourselves up close?

I would like to talk to you more often,
And about deeper things.
But they’ve already told you not to listen to me.
So we will continue on in distant silence.

We’ve never seen Earth from Mars before.
I really don’t think we should see it again.
At least, not until the micro enhances the macro,
And we could really learn something beyond technology.