I Land on The Moon

Everyone is asleep in the room

I quietly leave and go to the Moon

I see a shooting star

It had come from a place afar

I climb it and quickly aim for the sky

It vanishes when we are really high

I meet the stars floating here and there

Now they are twinkling everywhere

I touch the stars and feel their glow

My shooting star is shooting a bit slow

We are almost there and what I see

A rabbit on the Moon and it is about to flee

There is an old woman with her spinning wheel

She looks at me and keeps spinning the spinning wheel

And that’s not all; the Moon is teeming with wonders

There are elephants, giraffes and many reindeers

All of them are shining and shining bright

They are all emitting a shining white light

When they see me standing like a fool

They all shout, “He broke the rule

He rode a shooting star and came to the Moon

He must be throw him out and real soon

His feet are dirty and nails are uncut

Did he ever wash his face? He is a nut

No one can come here without taking a bath

Let us throw him on the outward path”

They come after me I have nowhere to run

But for them it is nothing but real fun

Magically they turn into worms that glow

They are all around me and I receive a nasty blow

It is my kid brother who had hit me hard

And from my deep sleep I wake up with a start.

© i b arora