Planet Earth, Still Blue, Forgotten You

(Inspired by the Song "Space Oddity" by David Bowie)
 
Though I keep trying, I still wonder if you can hear me Major Tom  
For surely your oxygen must have exhausted decades earlier  
 
Leaving you giddy and drowsy, foolishly laughing all alone  
Before apoxia took its lethal toll over forty three years ago  
 
Sadly, we did not fare all that much better here back on Planet Earth  
Greed continued to win the day, genocide swept across the globe, and the ice caps continued to melt  
 
Long ago we grew bored and tired of you and other such real heros  
Instead now addicted to Facebook, video games, and reality TV  
 
Tweeting and texting as our beautiful language languished and finally died  
Now only studied by aging archeologists, romantic English Lit majors and rebel underground poets off the grid but ironically still on the internet  
 
Maybe it's better that you died so soon after making the grade  
When all of us still were obssessed with your fashion choices  
 
I often wonder how it would be if you returned today, triumphantly to the sound of crickets  
No one remembering who you were and what you achieved  
 
That is except for me, you see I was eight when you lifted off  
Though no astronaut, I am now a tired and crusty old colonel myself  
 
Would you step again through the door, look around  
Then sadly shake your head and again vault into the cold emptiness of space, so wishing you had never returned