The Comet - Norman Littleford

 

The Comet By Norman Littleford (Source TN Textbook)

 

Rampaging through the heavens

Never stopping day or night,

A spectacle of a lifetime

A comet in full flight.

 

Faster than a cheetah

With a tail that’s miles long,

Bigger than a mountain

So powerful and strong.

 

The outer ice is melting

Causing vapor from the force,

And leaves a trail behind it

As it travels on its course.

 

If one should come too close to earth

The atmosphere will shake,

With shockwave reaching to the ground

Causing the land to quake.

 

Scientists say the chemicals

In the dust they leave behind,

Could have started life on the earth

Which resulted in mankind.

 

I cannot say if this is true

I do not have the right,

But I know no better spectacle

Than a comet in full flight.