Snowflakes

Twenty odd years into the century

with strange happenings in all

Corners of the planet;

It was said that hearts frozen 

in loneliness blow up dead stars

As well as they could men, 

women and children 

All it took was a cocktail of 

snowflakes & ancient uranium 

But not one of those seven billion 

jailed by a tiny thread 

of nucleic acids found the will

to swim, to implode; Or to search

for another star, another flight

To visit families now aware 

Of the vastness of oceans 

But we sent a camera craft 

to Mars in that same year 

(As posted to Facebook poetry group)