Colonization: Then and Again

I have been thinking about space exploration recently especially since I've been imbibed by newspaper articles. Should I be happy that Pluto will regain its planet status? Next I read about the failed shuttle which burst open like a piñata over the Florida coast. It setback hopes of economic travel to Mars vacation and possible colonization. Before that I read about Venus and how it is earth like because they sensed active volcanoes. It had me thinking. Oh why not? Here are some thoughts which hopefully are poems:

Colonization then and again

Europeans wanted to colonize America

To escape the wars and life of strife in Europe:

Religious persecution and economic blight

To set up colonies far from the crown 

Then they made it their own.

They chased them and cornered them onto reservations.

They took land and made it their own.

They traded for them and made them work on plantations.

They achieved a status in the new world like never before.

They want the status quo to stay but others demanded change

And wars were fought that brought about some rights.

They cry that rights should never extend to all

As that should clearly cause the human race to fall.

Such as the right to marry should stay ordained

But it always had a civil consequence

For serious illness and who can visit in hospital.

Then there is employer sponsored healthcare

And even intestate where some states recognize

common-law wife but not your domestic mate.

The status quo has never been the same

Not when Europeans crossed the Atlantic

And Americans they became.

So why do people expect things to stay the same?

Now Humans want to colonize Venus or even Mars

To escape the wars and life of strife on Earth

Religious persecution and economic blight

To set up colonies on earth-like planets

To explore new worlds and make it their own.

Will they chase the Venetians and Martians away?

Or will they use them for slave labor?

Will they create a new status quo?

Will the human pattern repeat itself?