Storms of Global Warming send us to Space.
Storms of overpopulation...to Mars.
Humanity will settle strange planets...
Remembering their kind ran the gauntlet

Of Man versus Nature, and almost won
At a cost they were not prepared to pay.
An o-ring brought one Shuttle down, to sea...
Tiles claimed another. We are the Species

Whose Manifest Destiny is the stars.
Stop now...and we crawled on land for nothing.
Stop now...and our Earth will have Tomorrow
On terms we can't run from, trade, or borrow.

Remember this day...Endeavor's true worth...
A massive storm brought this Shuttle to Earth.

elysabeth faslund

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/global-warming-sonnet/