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# Poems: Space dreams
- URL: https://jatan.space/space-dreams/
- Published: 2019-09-14T14:54:01.000Z
- Updated: 2026-01-16T09:00:06.000Z
- Author: Jatan Mehta
- Tags: Verses

## a. Our galaxy awaits

*The first view of our galaxy awaits,* 
*the lights of billions of suns*

*Yet each star a destination of its own,* 
*out of reach for millennia unknown*

*You see, us a species still in cradle Earth,* 
*our ability to spread life still a dearth*

*Await the Moon, the asteroids, Titan, and Mars,* 
*at all of their dawn but a gaze at the stars*

*Though without the will and wit to pull it off,* 
*an interplanetary dream by itself is not enough*

*Need an eye for the details,* 
*a rigor to pick up leftover trails*

*An incessant readiness for discourse and critique,* 
*and the patience to inspire and teach*

*All of this is what you possess,* 
*with a forgiving nature, no less*

*Every such Sol can we not iterate,* 
*and set ablaze life to proliferate* 
*Need but a gravity assist to set things straight,* 
*beyond which the first view of our galaxy awaits.*

## b. Dream, we must

*Dream, we must!* 
*Or risk our species blown to dust*

*For a future that extends beyond the sky,* 
*the time to act is nigh*

*An orchestrated descent to the Moon,* 
*and an iterative rendezvous with an asteroid*

*Carry on with your dream,* 
*and get past the crater’s rim*

*For you have not just the innate curiosity,* 
*but also the warmth of empathy*

*Persistently crack the seven minutes of terror,* 
*and then be the Solar System torch bearer*

*A whirl around Jupiter,* 
*and a landing on Europa*

*A dive through the rings of Saturn,* 
*and a glide above the seas of Titan*

*The first orbit around mysterious Uranus,* 
*and a swift passage through Triton’s geysers* 

*With perseverance and might,* 
*reign in the peaks of eternal light.*

![An illustration showing a futuristic starship near a bright pink nebula with a violet border.](https://jatan.space/content/images/2025/10/the-mutara-nebula-star-trek-enterprise.jpg)

The Mutara Nebula and a Starship. [Image: 1darthvader](https://1darthvader.deviantart.com/art/The-Mutara-Nebula-148814902)

![The four Galilean moons of Jupiter displayed as a portrait above the planet’s largest storm, the Great Red Spot.](https://jatan.space/content/images/2025/10/jupiter-galilean-moons-family-portrait.jpg)

This 'family portrait' shows a composite of images of Jupiter and its four largest moons: Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto. Europa is about the same size as our Moon whereas Ganymede is bigger than planet Mercury. [Image: ESA](https://jatan.space/esa-juice-mission-to-jupiter-moons/)

**Poem notes:**

1. “Peaks of eternal light” is a reference to thin sections of near-permanently sunlit areas on the Moon’s poles due to [favorable geometry](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak%5Fof%5Feternal%5Flight) between the elevated terrain and the near-horizon Sun.
2. My first job involved working with some remarkably passionate and like-minded people. I particularly enjoyed spending time with two friends for whom I wrote these respective poems.

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*Both poems are part of* [***Seven uni-verses***](https://jatan.space/seven-uni-verses-poetry/)*, my globally published poetry pamphlet.*

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#### Seven uni-verses (booklet)

By [****Jatan Mehta**](https://jatan.space/about). Poetry on all that space evokes.

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