An ocean flowed on Venus eons past <br />Before a body blow reversed her spin <br />And now alas, unlike her earthly twin <br />Her waters to the heavens have been cast. <br />Tectonic plates, unoiled, locking fast <br />And no sure passage frees the heat within <br />The skin and core are thermally akin <br />No dynamo protects from cosmic blast. <br />And lighter gas is swept away by rays <br />Ten miles deep, from pole to pole she's wrapped <br />In densest greenhouse gas, her body steeps. <br />Each blistered night, a hundred plus earth days <br />In Vulcan's ashy forge forever trapped <br />And with sulphuric acid tears she weeps.<br /><br />Diane Hine<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/sister-planet/
