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# Poem: Back to the Moon..
- URL: https://jatan.space/back-to-the-moon/
- Published: 2026-04-18T17:16:24.000Z
- Updated: 2026-04-22T10:21:14.000Z
- Description: For me not thee, but still for humanity..
- Author: Jatan Mehta
- Tags: Verses

*We’re going back* 
*back to the Apollo era* 
*back to human eyes at Luna* 
*back to views of our blue marble* 
*and back to bombing its civilians*

*Back to the horrors of Vietnam* 
*in the schools of Iran* 
*while lunar astronauts look back* 
*“for all humanity”*

*We’re going back* 
*with a translunar injection burn* 
*while leveling buildings in Lebanon* 
*in that same duration*

*We’re going back* 
*back to taking pains* 
*for ensuring lunar crew safety* 
*but not the missile precision* 
*that avoids civilian casualty*

*We’re going back* 
*for all humanity, they say* 
*back for cosmic aspiration* 
*not the million displaced children;* 
*isolate them, they may* 
*for it inspires them not thee anyway*

*Are we going back* 
*for that overview effect* 
*or the elite overlook defect?* 
*For the children who weep Earth’s blue* 
*remain unresolved in that 4K overview*

*We’re so going back* 
*back to little sense of humility* 
*back to preserve the future of hypocrisy* 
*where local diversity trumps international adversity* 
*back to this lunacy bundled as humanity*

*We’re so going back* 
*back to placing life on dead terrain* 
*while the non-barren see bombs rain* 
*amid dangling threats from a president* 
*of nuking one’s civilization in an instant*

*This whole disgrace* 
*is not the promise of space* 
*Let’s go back—nay—forward* 
*to a* [*crescent embrace*](https://jatan.space/selene-smashed-not-shattered/)   
*but only from our better place.*

![](https://jatan.space/content/images/2026/04/artemis-ii-lunar-flyby-moon-earth-impact-craters-closeup-1.jpg)

****What and whom do we really see when we see this?** | Image: [NASA / Artemis II](https://www.nasa.gov/gallery/lunar-flyby/)

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**Notes:** Even as NASA finally [launched humans to the Moon](https://jatan.space/moon-monday-issue-270/) for the first time in over five decades, its juxtaposition with the in-parallel US and Israeli military strikes [killing and displacing children in Iran and the Middle East](https://www.unicef.org/press-releases/humanitarian-crisis-children-deepens-after-one-month-war-middle-east) does [not reinforce](https://jatan.space/moon-monday-issue-271/) the mission’s propagated claim of going to the Moon “for all humanity”. Artemis II would’ve been way more exciting and one with integrity if it also didn’t overlap with a million children weeping. Artemis II was certainly inspiring. But going from there to peddling that the mission went to the Moon “for all humanity” against the backdrop of crimes against humanity on Earth is an unfathomable giant leap.

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*If you liked this space poetry of mine, read* [***Seven uni-verses***](https://jatan.space/seven-uni-verses-poetry/)*, my globally published poetry pamphlet.*

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