Dead Planet

DEAD PLANET

I look out upon the wasteland that is my home. The rubble and junk spreads as far as the eye can see. As I walk through the trash I imagine what it would be like to live on the capital planet with towering white skyscrapers and lush rainforests surrounded by clear blue seas. It has animals too. Huge lumbering grey things with long noses and other things like tiny insects with shells that shimmer like a rainbow. The place here has no animals no green trees and no blue oceans, just endless piles of scrap-metal and waste used as the dumping ground of the capital planet.

I pick up an old engine, my father told me once he had these in his time, now days this couldn’t even run a hoverboard. I look out across the seas of rubble at a starship, dropping its load of rubbish into the junk. I start to head over, to check if I can scavenge anything new, walking atop of the sheets of rusted metal. I’ve been here all my life trying to get off this dead planet, slowly collecting scraps of metal and working parts that are not wanted, trying to create a ship that can get me out of here to the capital planet.

My eye catches a glint of something beneath the metal and machinery and I pull it from the rubble. I can’t believe my eyes at first. I’ve spent months trying to find this one piece and now, right in front of me lies an almost unused starship engine. It is complete, not a part missing. The date on the metal reads 3067, just two years ago. My creation can finally be complete. All I needed was this.

I spend the next month finishing my creation, loading my supplies from my makeshift house into my ship. I spend hours double-checking everything. I have fuel, food, drink, air and spare supplies. My starship is completely airtight, its bolts and screws are tight and its glass is polished completely clear. The engine is running and I slowly lift it up of the ground. Everything is perfect, I have waited 23 years for this moment. As I fly up, leaving the atmosphere and heading towards the capital planet, where I can live a better life, I look back one more time to say goodbye to my planet.

Goodbye to Earth.

By Zak Benson

This was for an english assignment recently.