Baby Steps To Infinity Poem by Kevin Patrick

To get to the moon, you walk across the room
Burn thrusters slowly, so your momentum is saved
And if you want to get to Mars,
Nimbly plan your next course
Its just in the kitchen next to the asteroid belt
And if you want to reach Jupiter, and Saturn
And all their treasure chests of satellites
Learn to walk faster, there all in the house
Just waiting for spring cleaning
but out of the house requires different strategy
The Kuiper belts is your garage
and the Oort cloud is your lawn
If you cut the grass, you can be their before dawn


And next door is alpha centauri, a friendly neighbor
But at our pace it will take more than a lifetime to reach it
But with the right wheels we can get round the block.
See the neighbors, Bernard, Ross and Sirius,
Then if we get off the street, we can head to the next one,
And the next.
The neighborhoods just a spirals arm, you can drive along
If your fuel for light is speed for your car.
And then we can travel the entire town.
Our galaxy, and all the backwaters
But only if you can drive shift interstellar wheels


And then maybe after this town, we can go to the next city
it's just a galaxy, ripe full of promises.
The bright lights of andromeda call like a celestial siren.
And then other cities call, Pootes and Triangulum,
The outer rim of Reticulum,
So far and vast, eternities heading past
Until you reach the other side of the world
The universe or the next
Yet if you can reach these its safe to say
Your intergalactically cosmopolitan
A citizen of the universe
A bohemian of infinity
In this planet called cosmos
we have barely walked or touch an inch

And man is a baby, barely able to walk across the room