Space is a wilderness and I am a civilized man
I’ve sailed through the angelic sea,
I have heard the star’s sirenesque lullaby,
I’ve sat first row and watched the heavenly hosts perform a theatrical show,
Lightning crackled,
Asteroids are thrown,
Supernovas erupt into an orange bloom,
Things that no earth-man will ever see
I’ve hoped that my cosmic travels,
Fraught with perils,
Would inspire other dare devils,
To test their metal,
And not settle for a system that wouldn't listen,
To dreamers like me,
Because I did just push the outer limits,
I knocked them down into aesthetic dust,
To show all of the cosmologists,
How righteous,
My astronautical adventures were,
But now...
...
I ...
...
I am afraid the one kindly sight of nuclear lights,
Remind me of air holes punctured into a cardboard box,
Trembling with fear I have begun to despair,
That I am trapped,
Inside my metal box I rage,
Clawing against the walls as if in a cage,
I hunger in pain for which no food or water can sate,
Marooned in my vessel,
(An island in a vacuum ocean)
I have realized!
That space is an infinite cage and I am a wild animal
