Benno

I kneel in graveside dirt

and drop a handful of dust

a mere six feet

whilst searching for a meaning

for this death,

elsewhere in other news

two-hundred and five million

fifty-two thousand

four hundred and ninety-three

miles away

a small machine falls

to the surface of a rock

just five-hundred metres wide

to grab a handful of dust

whilst searching for the origins of life

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© Graham Sherwood 10/2020