Poem: Triple sunset
Here lies the bathing light of the red dragon,
deepening horizons on a world so foreign
Yet much like a haven that is our Earth,
there could be water on its surface unhurt
Could there be life too on this land of the triple-star,
would they also figure out who they are?
Would they comprehend the distant binary-star show?
that they are the suns of the one they know
Oh what a view it would be,
for life there to see
But if on that world
there isn’t any,
let it be the carved destiny of humanity.
Poem notes: This is a poetic follow-up to my article ‘How Isaac Asimov used science fiction to point out our biases’. I’ve retrospectively discovered that the poem also relates to the vivid science fiction story of The Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu.
Part of Seven uni-verses, my globally published poetry pamphlet.
