Across a Sea of Stars

And finally I see their world,

That which the Sky People call home.

I see an empty airless void,

Across this space they've flown.

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I see a single golden sun,

I see a planet third.

I see a world of so much water,

That strangely is called Earth.

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I see a dying, battered world,

I smell a bitter wind.

I see so much death and despair,

I see its hope grow frayed and thin.

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I see vast and deep yet lifeless oceans,

I see stretches of wasteland.

I see rivers flow no longer,

I see empty swathes of sand.

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I see jungles of pure metal,

Of blinking neon lights.

Through these the tawtute shuffle,

Looking up at starless nights.

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I see this world deep in its past,

I see what it could be.

I see why Man's come to my world,

Why they crossed an airless sea.

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"Not again," I tell myself,

My hand cannot refrain.

I must spare my world the coming storm,

Of a never-ending rain.

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It's time to fight, it's time to act,

It's time to make my stand.

I see the future in the balance,

So it's time to play my hand.