Inspired by
IOTD (but could have other interpretations)
"To be on a satellite,
or on a ship
that does a satellite become,
is to know the attraction
for a planet
but never to know the touch;
endlessly to fall -
yet endlessly to miss."
So saying, the professor leaped to his
apparently
senseless
life
And while expecting 'death'
so many others
died.