Space Settlement

Space Settlement
My father was one of the first men
who mined the moon for materials
(How I loved to say their names when I was young- aluminium, titanium, iron, silicon) to make gigantic tubular wheels that weightlessly
For ever float revolving gently in the vastness of space

When I was ten, my father came to live in this space settlement
What a joy, what unbridled pride my parents felt to be among the chosen
To be ole saviours of the human race
Supplying it with solar energy, essential
As its precious stock of oil and coal ran out.
My only brother and I, we did not doubt we would be happy here.

We were the chose children of chosen parents.
Near the low gravity hub of the wheel
The sapphire swimming pool was our perpetual delight
Diving , we fell slowly, light as winged seeds,
Performing effortlessly aerial acrobatics
No Earth-bound Olympic Champion could ever rival.
From the bottom pushing off we dived upwards exulting
Emerging like dolphins, frisky as flying fish.

For a year or more we never wearied of our aquatic games
Then suddenly without apparent reason, we did grow weary.
Each day the same hours of reflected sunlight the same temperature each night,
Each day not even a breeze. And worst of all no sky, no clouds,
No beast bird butterfly. The same dull food each day-
Wheaten bread maize, fish, rice, vegetables, soya beans.

I began to hate my new friends, even my own brother.
We were always quarrelling.
I longed for my old friends, to play the games we played.
Talk about familiar things and happenings.

Longed, Longed for my farmer life.

Exiled for ever, I can never return.

Each night now I dream I am home again.

OPINION:
New life is wanted by anybody but it doesn’t mean it can be enjoyed b them. Although you have everything you need but you are separated from other humans, you will feel that you are life is isolated. It will be colourless and hopeless because human are social creature. They need to interact and socialize with other human. Life is not only for what you have but also for what you enjoyed. Happily life means what you create not what you have.
But overall this poem is a good poem