Esther and Danny continue their conversation as the Princess returns home to her Malibu estate with her child. She desperately needs a father figure to emerge in her life because the father of her child is busy trying to understand how he could have fathered two other children from another woman and still not know the true meaning of love. The Princess desperately searched for true love but could only come up with the seed she needed to create a child and cared less about the importance of a true love and how it would affect the up bringing of her child. She looked at Esther as a role model but did not see that Esther had to overcome many barriers within her public life as she gave birth to the first of her two children. Both the Queen and the Princess were now mothers and had to deal with their children being brought up in the public eye. How they dealt with that added responsibility was to make or break their careers.

The Princess remained on Earth as Esther and Danny watched the Earth spin by them through the port hole in the space station. Danny desperately wanted to make the three day trip to the moon but NASA had yet to develop the vehicle that would return man and woman to the moon. He remembered the Apollo era and his childhood astronaut heroes. Apollo 17 was the last manned mission to the moon and left behind a lunar rover that was used to drive on the lunar surface. He realized that this mission took place in December of 1972 and a whole new generation has been born since that time. Some had begun to doubt that man actually went to the moon because they could not witness this sight for their own eyes. NASA, it seems, has not promoted its greatest accomplishment and has lost some of its credibility with the youth of the Earth. If the Queen and the Princess can help promote a new mission to the moon perhaps we can retain our past glory that we achieved in Space between 1969 and 1972.

Do you know anyone named sun-dot?

Esther asked Danny for another glass of wine as they dined in simulated gravity aboard the space station. She said she would gladly promote the Wings and the Sands if it meant completing the International Space Station and returning to the moon to build a Lunar Base. She had already achieved her goal of uniting the youth of the planet through her music and she was looking for a new way to inspire her fans. Danny’s idea seemed unrealistic to many on the planet but he knew that Esther was the Queen and could take on the world if she put her mind to it. Although Britney was the Princess of pop, she too could inspire the masses as the youth followed her every movement.

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Originally posted by quinn:
oom gowa cha wowa

Are you praying there?

The Wings and the Sands

If WINGS can truly fly….this group of women may help us complete the International Space Station.
If SANDS are what the Moon is made of…this group of women may help us return to our Moon and help place the first woman there.
Every time I write to feel our Wings…
I get caught up in her beauty
Every time I try to fly…
I find our Wings are spread over time
Every time I laugh... .I cry deep inside
When will the Wings see the beauty that is floating in orbit above?
She lives in my soul but her love is only skin deep
Why must she weep?
She has this new world in her grasp
But still see reaches for straw instead of gold Will we reach the Moon before we grow old?

How long can she endure if her love is not true
I write this poem for me and for you
Until I can speak those heartfelt words:
I do...I do....I do!

When our Wings can fly…
We may all reach above the sky.
The Wings that I speak of are in us all…
yet the Wings of the Earth may still be quite small

But as we grow, the Sands may spread their influence to keep us in tune
They may even lead us off the Earth and back onto the Moon

We are the Wings of the Earth and the Sands of the Moon
Yet it's a feeling from inside that will bring Luna home soon
So when you look up in the sky each night with hope and dreams…
Take hold of your Wings and Sands… and realize that all things may not be as they may seem
You see, Luna is our Moon, a place for us to be
And with the help of the Wings and the Sands....
Someday maybe we all may see
The beauty of life above us...
And we may all be able to plant our seeds in orbit and grow the lunar trees.

A Juliet in modern times in hard to find
When I write in a poetic tongue, she finds it hard to speak
Does she exist in the land of the meek?
She calls herself by many names but it is plain to see that Juliet is still a part of me.
Call her Esther or Madonna and she will speak
Call her Britney and the lady will sing
But will he bring her roses on a bed of flowers
Will he be there for her in her most desperate hours?
I call out to the woman who can speak her mind throughout the ages...throughout time
If there is an angel...can she still spread her wings and fly
Up in the air.....higher and higher she must climb
Can she spread her wings and climb beyond time?
Speak to me dear Juliet, your play is alive and well within me
Can't you see?
Time stands still when Romeo meets Juliet
Their eternal romance is alive in my heart
Won't you answer me to let these feelings start?
Call to me and be not afraid to speak your mind
For this passion play may often seem sublime
Because it's a play of the heart and soul
Is there a woman out their who longs to play Juliet's role?

As Romeo and Juliet bring their romance into space above, we find that Danny and Esther have left the dining module and returned to the space port to be beamed back to the planet. Danny hopes that the reader has been captivated by his plan to return to the space station and on to the moon. With the help of those in the entertainment industry and NASA, it may indeed be possible to achieve these goals within our lifetime. As the candle flame flickered aboard the space station and the romance made its way back to planet Earth….the chapter finally came to an end.