The Last Plant on Mars

Life was a struggle for the last plant on Mars

but the last plant on Mars didn’t know

there was only one place where conditions were right

for the last plant on Mars to grow.

It was touch and go for the last plant on Mars.

It had found the last patch of good earth.

The last plant on Mars spread its roots in the soil,

and clung on for all it was worth.

The roots of the last plant on Mars searched hard

as they burrowed deep under ground,

and the last plant on Mars found the last drops of water

that would ever on Mars be found.

The last plant on Mars grew glossy green leaves,

then a flower of purest blue.

Then inside the flower of the last plant on Mars

many thousands of tiny seeds grew.

The last plant on Mars turned its face to the sky,

from whence came, with a screeching sound

a man-made machine on a mission to see

if life upon Mars could be found.

The man-made machine spread its flexible feet

and made itself ready to land.

It landed on top of the last plant on Mars,

and crushed it to mush in the sand.