POEM: Neil Armstrong’s moon landing

I watched a man walk somewhere other than on the earth.

Neil Armstrong put the first footprint on the moon.

A reluctant celebrity, he shied away from fame.

He may have said: “This is a small step for a man”

But he put a stamp on history forever

And now he has taken his “giant leap” into the next world,

Leaving us to remember that long night.

It was a starry one and the moon shone.

Angela Greenwood

Burnley