The First Donkey in Space

By Concord School students | Posted:

Tobi looked up at the darkening sky.

“The world is so big,” she said, “Oh, but I

feel so little and small in this backwater place

I wish I could be the first donkey in space.”

She heaved, she hawed, and then something went – pop!

The fence came apart, and out Tobi hopped.

Well, Tobi could barely contain her elation:

“I can finally go to the secret space station!

Then I can get out of this lonely old town,

with no worries, or gravity, to hold me down.”

She heaved, she hawed, and by break of day

she’d found the space station – she was on her way!

Tobi knocked on the door with her big, muddy hoof.

When nobody answered she felt like a goof.

But she knocked again, and grinned when she saw

Astronaut Aroha open the door.

She hee-ed, she hawed, and Aroha knew

Tobi had a big dream that she wished would come true.

Tobi learnt how to work all the buttons and dials,

she passed all the medicals and all the trials.

There was one thing to do before taking flight . . .

Get over her terrible, bad fear of heights.

She hee-ed, she hawed, but she wasn’t a quitter

She went all the way up the Mt Cargill transmitter.

She bungee jumped off and whooshed through the air

and finally conquered a lifetime of fear.

She put on her space suit, but oh dear, hee-haw . . .

It was too big to fit through the small space ship door.

She heaved, she hawed, until something went – flip!

Tobi was finally in the spaceship!

Tobi looked down at the earth and the sky

And she said to Aroha, floating nearby,

“I used to feel so small and so out of place,

“but look at me now – the first donkey in space!”