A Red Sun Rises

For long, the sky, it has been red,

First thing I see when wake from bed.

Normal for me, for others, dread,

Who declare it's time we long since fled.

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For the rockets we all run,

To race to space, to flee from sun.

Things are said and much is done,

The reddish light we have to shun.

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They say there once was yellow light,

A bluish sky, the stars at night.

To survive, we must all take to flight,

The sun's expansion we can't fight.

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That which gave life now grants no mercy,

Did not give it for Mercury.

Into the rocket, inside not dirty,

Not all can leave, I feel unworthy.

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Venus, as well, long since consumed,

Its people fled as danger loomed.

Our starships will be leaving soon,

And yet I feel sense of gloom.

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A red sun is all that I've known,

Yes, pictures of old sun were shown.

But now in space we have to roam,

To find Earthers another home.

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Humanity's long roamed the stars,

Spreading out from Earth and Mars.

I'm all strapped in, down come the bars,

G-forces, I must outlast.

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So we go soaring through the sky,

To Earth, its children wave goodbye.

Into the black we have to fly,

Some, they cheer, while others cry.

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Through a window, see the sun,

A red giant we outrun.

The Earth, our home, we must now shun,

About that nothing can be done.

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So with much regret and little mirth,

We leave the world that gave us birth.

Such is time's march, and its cruel curse,

Farewell, we say, to Mother Earth.