Positive is hard

I struggle.

All day I smile.

Cheerfulness is the refrain.

Happy and helpful.

Yet now that I’m home

my thoughts turn dark.

Tears run from my cheeks.

I only wish to be left alone.

And I’m not.

What happens next when you still need to be positive

and you have no more energy to give?

Mother Saturn

What wonders you have birthed

As we have watched you these eons.

First on Earth, a god

who loved his wine and women.

Then we learned more as probes passed by.

Your beauty shown more each passing picture.

Then came the actual exploration

populated with space pioneers.

Your moons are now covered with our people,

though you yourself have been left untouched.

Mother Saturn, thank you.