/// Using telescopes, patience and math,
brilliant Nicolaus forged a new path.
From his perch on the roof
he developed his proof,
(while incurring his nude neighbor’s wrath).

/// Here’s Copernicus, give him a nod.
He would have Conversations with God.
An astronomer ace
who learned secrets of space;
watch him now as he kneels before Zod.

/// Though a genius, Nick’s still just a guy.
Sense of humor? A healthy supply.
He’d encourage his friends
to peer through his ‘scope‘s lens.
They’d end up with an ersatz black eye.

/// Nick Copernicus, great man of Science,
had some theories that were in defiance
of religious belief,
but his Church had no beef.
As a canon Nick had an alliance.

/// In his system Earth circled the sun.
You’d think zealots would say he was done.
But the Church didn’t k.o.
this, ‘til Galileo.
Ages passed, but, in time, science won.