Breathing in silence
Watching the lights change
Awaiting the countdown
Quiet before the storm
Imagine what it takes
to turn this monster on
~
The ground is shaking
A sudden wake-up call
I'm trapped inside here
heading for a fall
I think of loved ones
The living and the dead
A million thoughts keep
running through my head
~
Up in the sky now
I can't look down
I feel like burning up
to this hell-raising sound
A forceful farewell
A careful hello
To the life of tomorrow
Other worlds yet unknown
~
Credentials and prowess
once paved my way for this odyssey
The catalyst of fiction to actuality
~
Breaking through the stratosphere
Tremors might occur
Hold on to your heart and soul
You've got to stay in control
~
High expectations relate
to the grandeur of outer space
It may hold the secret
to update the human race
~
There's a reason
There's a reason for your attempts
All the good things
you've done trying to
make amends
Dig much deeper
As you're travelling through the dark
In a rocket-fuelled capsule to stardom
~
Weightless in motion,
I'm dying to master this exercise
Alone in the dark
I'm beginning to fantasise
Of uncharted planets,
civilisations, biology
A far more progressive
and faultless technology
~
All the good things you've
done trying to make amends
Go much further
I'm still wondering in the dark
An enlightening journey
~
Touching down, I hold my breath
Doors about to reveal what's inside
The promised land or sudden death?
~
Restless mind allured
to find its true identity
Wasted years evoking
tears as I face reality
~
It's so cold and lonely
An achromatic site
Unsuitable for human interplay
Life was so good, so why
Seek to rectify
~
Ease your mind, I've redesigned
No longer in pursuit
All this time my only crime
Was to leave in solitude
~
Off the ground now
Heading back home
It's time to settle down
in my domestic dome
No more illusions
I'll strive to get high
With my feet on the Earth
as I look to the sky
~
I think of loved ones
The living and the dead
A million thoughts keep
running through my head...
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