An imaginative retriever.

Maybe there was life on Mars. Four billion years ago. It’s a theoretical possibility. I can imagine it. So can scientists. And astronomers. The ones that have sent spacecraft to Mars. With robots. Exploring and photographing the terrain. Finding signs that Mars once had abundant water. Rivers. Seas. An atmosphere. Maybe there was an advanced civilization. Until something went terribly wrong. And now, billions of years later, Mars is a desolate place. Devoid of life. As we know it. Maybe the same thing will happen on Earth. Some day. Give it time. All signs of life will disappear. All signs of civilization. Gone. Life comes and goes.  And time erases all traces. Of what once was. But I can retrieve it all. With my imagination. –Jim Broede