Come back Goddard, we need you

At a time the rocketry wizards grappling

with the idea of rockets to travel to stars and beyond

Goddard you father of modern of rocketry

no more with us, gone to sleep in your tomb

Come back  Goddard, we need you

Resurrect yourself like the phoenix bird

Rising from the ashes, stir, arise from the

Skeletal remains of you, emerge out of

The tomb holding you in peaceful sleep

The time for you to be amongst us

You deduced Newton’s third law of motion

Works for the rocket , the thrust generated

By the hot energy of burning gases

Converted into mechanical motion by the thrust

generated for lift off, acceleration, coasting into space 

You rightly determined thrust works in vaccum too

Visualizing the rocket to escape into space

With right mass, propellants, exhaust velocity

You found the liquid propellants more efficient

You created the mathematics for the rocket

The dream of travel to stars remains a distant dream

the light years distances proving stumbling blocks

we need more imaginative propulsions, ionic,

anti-matter , nuclear propulsion one that propulsion

will finally take us to stars with imaginative shrinkage of space

So come back Goddard renew your work

Work on ingenious propulsions, find a way

To shrink the light years, your propulsion

Will work taking us to stars and beyond

Let there be that history making count down soon

-Mohan Sanjeevan

N.B:- This is not to discredit the present day rocketry scientists, just a tribute to Robert Goddard on the day of his liquid fuel rocket launch completing 90 years and to express the wish for the development of rockets travelling to stars