Cosmic Trip
Pastel skies collide with waves of atmosphere
Through rockets blast on thunderous gaseous fire
Hurled away from Spring time madness flowered
Comforts of the Earth revoked
Man owns the universe and all that's in it
Cold has no name in deep space for color
Planets run with rocks in celestial quirks of nature
Through circular asteroid belts designed by black
Take blankets of dark wrapped in permanent night
Answer back at strangers who invade their space
Warned to keep a distance from the stars
Electronic noise with lights do not intimidate
A leap of faith is needed when you travel
Astronauts cover themselves in silver suites
Filled with oxygen and sensors to detect
To step outside the craft into the universe
Outside themselves into the past
Destinations measured become absorbed
Stored in the books of knowledge
In time it will all be sorted out
Bound to have some meaning this time out
Signals bounce from an antennae reaching
Calculated at a distance to the nearest stars
To be discovered as they are
Inclinations on the not so new
So far from home from our perspective
Only a soft beat can be discerned
Words have no sound in outer space
No meaning from the start
Only a murmur of humanity as matter
Sounds a faint echo in the distant heart
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