Like A Butterfly

poem was inspired by astronaut Story Musgrave. And of course the Columbia tragedy. Credit for the first two lines of the poem goes to him. Seven years ago next month and it still brings tears to read it.              Like A Butterfly (Columbia) like a beautiful butterfly bolted to a bulletbeautiful and fragile but not afraid to flyup toward Heaven,  through the vast beautiful skyshe breaks free and flies on her owngliding around earth like few have ever known the butterfly is silent as she spreads her wingsbut the Heaven echoes as the Angels singsseven brave astronauts on the journey of their lifebrothers and sisters, fathers, mother, husband and a wifeeach one living their own dreambut together they are one team each one has looked to earth from high aboveand thought about the ones they loveand looked up at the stars and beyondlooked back to what we have and what's yet to be done seven astronauts unaware of the Angels on their wingthey don't hear the sad song, they now singthey know the danger of travel in spacebut not the grim task, the seven Angels face a beautiful butterfly bolted to a bulletbeautiful and fragile but not afraid to flyup toward Heaven through a vast beautiful skyseven new Angels take flightseven new stars, adorn the Heavens tonight         huey r horton (hippiepoet69) copyright 2-4-03 I dedicate this to all that have made one of mankind greatest dreams come true, space travel. Especially those who have given their lives for not only their dream but ours.To all astronauts, cosmonauts and all those who support them. God be with you. huey