On Another World

Imagine, if you can, people so
brimming with ingratitude for
the privilege of life on Planet Earth
that they yearn to experience life
on a planet where none exists,
leaving their natural environment
surfeit with treasures to enhance life
for one with a bleak prospect, desolate
beyond words, to become dependent
on the hope that human ingenuity
will provide oxygen, water, food,
and of course communication with
those whose preference is to remain
in situ, spurning the opportunity to
traverse dark, cold, timeless space,
an opportunity that sends chills of
the unknown and the potential for
the vision of a hospitable Mars to 
collapse, with none surviving, an
optimistic query into the mysteries
of the Universe failed as a goal
simply unachievable through the
puny efforts of self-assured
exploration marketers to the beyond.