50 years ago today

50 years ago today
We landed on the moon!
A giant leap that showed the world
Just what we could do
When laying down a goal
We can easily digest
In efficiency of words,
In just a sentence or less...
"The nation...should commit itself.
To landing on the moon"
The time limit specified
NASA thought too soon
Given all the countless things
And theories left to proove
Before they could pull off
Everything they had to do.
But do it they had done!
Man walked upon the moon!
A moment so momentous
There were some who needed proof
Beyond lunar geology
Retrieved to show the world
That it's wasn't just an act,
We were there, boys and girls!
But you know how it goes....
no facts are yet sufficient
to satisfy the doubters
Who's faith is quite deficient.
And for their anti-counterparts
no facts needed at all
for those who will believe
at the dropping of a ball.
I'd like to think I've got
a complement of common sense
enough to give me distance
from the woes of either bench
neither such a critic
that I cannot make-believe
And hopefully avoiding
overdosing on naive
And from a happy middle ground
salute humanity!
You've done it chaps!  And now I
think it's time for a repeat!