Kitchen table moon
I was five in sixty nine.
My birthday the 11th July.
My father came home on my birthday,
carrying an Airfix kit.
The Apollo mission Saturn 5 rocket.
The fixation of every kid.
Stage by stage dad built the kit.
Explaining every bit.
How the gasses would mix and explode.
How the fire would flow.
How it would throw this beautiful needle
all the way to the moon.
As the launch came close it was nearly finished.
Myself, my father and the world held our breath.
Every boy in the world that year
Stared with longing at the moon.
When the 16th came we watched her fly.
My dad, with the model, continued to explain.
How each section would be discarded
as soon as it's fuel was done.
How after the burn is over
gravity has command
Then, as they travel,
the world just has to wait.
On the 20th July 1969 Buzz Aldrin, Neil Armstrong, my father and me.
We walked on a kitchen table moon
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That brings back the memory, I was 10 and got told off for laughing with my brother at the tv, we said it wasnt real, it was worse than a cartoon, and boy was my dad mad at our mockery of history...bless them.
Yeah they don't make nostalgia like they used to. Thinking about it, dad always bought himself a present on my birthday, he only pretended to give them to me.