Rosetta's last from Comet 67P!
First, here is a poetic good-bye:
Rosettas Last Letter Home
By Stuart Atkinson
And so, my final day dawns.
Just a few grains are left to drain through
The hourglass of my life.
The Comet is a hole in the sky.
Rolling, turning, a black void churning
Silently beneath me.
Down there, waiting for me, Philae sleeps,
Its bed a cold cave floor,
A quilt of sparkling hoarfrost
Pulled over its head
I have so little time left;
I sense Death flying behind me,
I feel his breath on my back as I look down
At Maat, its pits as black as tar,
A skullss empty eye sockets staring back
At me, daring me to leave the safety
Of this dusty sky and fly down to join them,
Never to spread my wings again; never
To soar over The Comets tortured pinnacles and peaks,
Or play hide and seek in its jets and plumes
I dont want to go.
I dont want to be buried beneath that filthy snow.
This is wrong! I want to fly on!
There is so much more for me to see,
So much more to do
But the end is coming soon.
All I ask of you is this: dont let me crash.
Help me land softly, kissing the ground,
Coming to rest with barely a sound
Like a leaf falling from a tree.
Dont let me die cartwheeling across the plain,
Wings snapping, cameras shattering,
Pieces of me scattering like shrapnel
Across the ice. Let me end my mayfly life
In peace, whole, not as debris rolling uncontrollably
Into Deir el-Medina
Its time to go, I know.
Only hours remain until I join Philae
And my great adventure ends
So Ill send this and say goodbye.
If I dream, Ill dream of Earth
Turning beneath me, bathing me in
Fifty shades of blue
In years to come I hope youll think of me
And smile, remembering how, for just a while,
We explored a wonderland of ice and dust
Together, hand in hand.
Then, there's the last pic.