The Year Of2018 Poem by Benjamin Chiu Uy

The Year Of 2018


Like the bright lights of the heavenly shinning,

hopes, dreams
The fables of man,

The machines on space,
The dawn of inventions, the dreams of science,

With every means, with every news spreading like wings over wildfire over the dark oceans

Men resurrect, God endowed,
You meant to fly,

Remember once the moon.
Remember once the uncertain child,

From the cosmic guild of prodigious studies, became the cosmic child,

Remembered once the plague,
Once the dark ages,
Prevailed and covered the dark earth,
Remember the cure, the breakthroughts,
Nearer much nearer, much closer do we understand all the cancers,

All dystrophies, all malignancies of the sovereign bodies,


But now 2018, we are flying to Mars, after the landings on the Moon,
Planning towardsthe stars.