My Planet's Child
Lyrics © 2000 by Catherine Faber; melody ©
2000 by Catherine Faber and Arlene "Callie" Hills
Arrangement © 2000 by Arlene "Callie" Hills and Bob
Esty
I was born on a dancing world, where day
and darkness run
Do-si-do with the dusty moon, around a distant sun.
Which shyly skirts a wider waltz, by gravity's request
Around a swirling galaxy that knows no point of rest.
Oh, I come by it honestly if
I am star-beguiled,
For if I am a rover, well, I am my planet's child.
The very iron in my blood has wandered wide and far--
Forged and flung from the fire's heart that fueled a foreign
star.
Mars hangs low in the winter sky, a faint
red spark to see,
That might yet hold some scrap of life; a wanderer like
me;
A fractured portrait hinting how the solar system
spawned;
And more than that--a stepping stone to all the worlds
beyond.
Pink and pearl the summer skies on
Martian planetside,
Where clouds of ice and iron help to swing the seasons
wide.
And in the winter morning with the sky all blue with
night,
A freezing fog comes furling in to veil the valleys
white.
Soon enough I'll soar away to sail the
sunlit black,
Thirty months as earthlings count to travel out and
back.
The calendar is counting down; the zero hour nears,
To add my own small circle to the clockwork of the
spheres.
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