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in 2028 we will have a space station circling mars i have never felt something rattle me so deeply through my heart my bones will not stop trembling when i look to the stars i can not stop the twitching in my toes telling me to go i always threw out “astronaut” as a dream of a dream something there but always out of reach but now i know that i can touch down before i’m in my mid-thirties i see the full moon and i can’t stop the shaking send me home send me home send me home a teacher asked me if, given the opportunity would i take a one-way ticket off-planet, and never look back? and i laughed and i told him mars is not far enough away from earth send me to saturn and pluto and tie me to halley i am ready to touch other stars i love the sun but she is not my Sun i love the moon but she is not my Moon i have been sick of earth since i knew that i could be send me on missions to put it all behind me “what about your family” what about anybody? what about anybody? i don’t want to be alone in the cold of space i want to find something out there that might be companionable to the human race i want to go home i want to go home i’m not sure how far that will take me and i’m not sure how far past it will be from mars but i know that getting up there will be the hardest part lift-off houston, we’ve got a problem i don’t have enough rocket fuel to get out of this solar system let’s use a gravitational slingshot to throw me out of orbit i’ll love earth when she is the little blue dot on a map of the stars andromeda holds my heart send me to mars send me to mars let me return to the red of my heart
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Aug 18, 2016
Aug 18, 2016 at 11:37 PM UTC
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in 2028 we will have a space station circling mars i have never felt something rattle me so deeply through my heart my bones will not stop trembling when i look to the stars i can not stop the twitching in my toes telling me to go i always threw out “astronaut” as a dream of a dream something there but always out of reach but now i know that i can touch down before i’m in my mid-thirties i see the full moon and i can’t stop the shaking send me home send me home send me home a teacher asked me if, given the opportunity would i take a one-way ticket off-planet, and never look back? and i laughed and i told him mars is not far enough away from earth send me to saturn and pluto and tie me to halley i am ready to touch other stars i love the sun but she is not my Sun i love the moon but she is not my Moon i have been sick of earth since i knew that i could be send me on missions to put it all behind me “what about your family” what about anybody? what about anybody? i don’t want to be alone in the cold of space i want to find something out there that might be companionable to the human race i want to go home i want to go home i’m not sure how far that will take me and i’m not sure how far past it will be from mars but i know that getting up there will be the hardest part lift-off houston, we’ve got a problem i don’t have enough rocket fuel to get out of this solar system let’s use a gravitational slingshot to throw me out of orbit i’ll love earth when she is the little blue dot on a map of the stars andromeda holds my heart send me to mars send me to mars let me return to the red of my heart
this is weird bc i rhymed so much??? v different from my usual. idk i'm just really hype about outer space (as always)
#home#outerspace#wanderlust#astronaut#alien#mars#nasa
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20/English
Aug 18, 2016
Aug 18, 2016 at 11:37 PM UTC
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