Closed Loop

by DavidKM

Closed Loop

The digger fouled up,

That’s the only explanation.

Programmed to expand the colony,

Sent ahead to dig more tunnels,

It took a wrong turn somewhere,

Maybe a bug, or a virus

Scrambling the programming,

Whatever the cause,

We woke to find ourselves living in a Klein bottle,

Every tunnel simply leads to another,

None will take us out.

The outside world:

Mars City, Mars itself, yada yada,

Might as well have been destroyed,

Maybe it was,

And maybe this was deliberate,

Maybe somebody in here

Really pissed off somebody important,

Out there.

Meanwhile, Betsy wants to see her mom,

Working topside when it happened,

Grandma and grandpa,

sunsets.

I miss them too,

And I’m knocking on the walls.

Is anybody listening?


277th Weekly Poetry Contest
Report violation