Ascension Poem by Wesley Mincin

Ascension

Doth the stars shine so that we may find them in the sky?
Solitary beacons, waiting to be found.
Yonder past this realm of Earth, in space to them we'll fly!
To the edges of Orion, humanity be bound.

Doth they not know of our capacity for hate and war?
Are the stars so innocent as we may have once thought?
Should we leave behind us scriptures of our complex lore?
Never mind the past for now, mysteries be sought!

May we lose the sinful leeches that retrospect our past.
Amid the stars shall they be lost to never distress us.
We shall traverse on the sea of space, so dark and vast,
on the waves of Pisces, Cancer, Capricorn and Taurus.

Some decide to pass the chance to travel to the stars,
while I opt to indulge myself into the great beyond.
So they'll remain here on Earth and never reach for Mars.
The stars of space now beckon me and so I shall respond.

Earth, though man-kind's origin, no longer is my home,
for life is but too short for us to stay and not aspire.
I, a nomad, shall expand. Star systems will I roam.
My eagerness to greet the stars shall never, ever tire.

The sky turns from a navy blue into the black of space.
And so I leave this rock of old that hosted wars and death.
Now, I venture further out to educe the human race.
I shall enjoy this trek of space with every passing breath...