The One - PAD - Nov 16

By NASA. Photo taken by either Harrison Schmitt or Ron Evans (of the Apollo 17 crew). [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

The One

At her feet

lay the sun, moon, stars, (every

gaseous planet in the

arms of Orion and most

of the rocky ones as well) but

all she really wanted

was the world – just one

minuscule

blue-green marble

miracle of the Milky Way

(which no one offered up)

so she walked away