Speeding Rocket

SPEEDING ROCKET Standing huge and massive on the launch pad, so many tons of power wait to be primed, one way ticket to the stars, waiting to be launched. It will circle the planet and then land safely, but it wants to go so much further. This will be the ride of our lives for not many people will do this. Now as we launch the hot fire pushes us skyward; further we go every second, the sky goes blue, fading to purple, then black. We can see the stars and the curve of the earth before us as we fly into space, majestically. We are as free now as we will ever be on our speeding rocket, spearing through the heavens, freedom.