Mission
We left upon a high tide
Of love and hope and enthusiasm
That pushed us gently off from home
Out into the starry night
To travel upon waves of faith
And the best of our technology
We embarked upon the journey
In our silvered ship of dreams
Carrying deep within the belly of its hold
Supplies and building blocks of life
Essentials for the colony
And a fragile early settlement
And now we can only wait
And voyage on regardless
Tracking our co-ordinates
On our pre-determined trajectory
A long-distance one-way ticket
Through cold and airless space
There will be no return
No coming back across the void
From this long-term venture
To a dry and dusty planet
With its darker horizon
Orbiting further from our Sun
But we may survive for long enough
To thrive and procreate the species
To build a tenuous foothold
Upon the rocky surface
Where we can stand defiant
And watch the Earth rise once again
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