Nerd Hymn

For my creative writing class, my teacher is having us write fixed form poems. Here is mine.


Nerd Hymn

I wish there was a way to Mars
that’s didn’t cost so much.
I would fly away, go so far
And never get back in touch.

Once water flowed on Mar’s skin
And now it runs all dry
With an atmosphere 150 times more thin
us humans could not survive.

I’m not saying I’m unscientific
but I wish that I could find
That there’s a life kind, albeit horrific,
with a highly master mind.

One day we’ll bomb the Martians land
to create an atmosphere,
but until then I’m stuck with man
and hating life while I’m here.



Yes, I am twenty years old.