The future is coming faster than we think. One day, not too long from now, we will be looking to colonize distant worlds. First within our own system and then someday… beyond.

INTO THE DARK

With thunder louder than the storm,

Light brighter than the dawn.

A mighty ship, heroic crew,

Far from this earth they’ve gone.

They join up with the mothership,

This one will be their home.

Will keep them safe, and warm and fed,

As through the dark they roam.

There’s worlds out there that beckon them,

There’s colonies to found.

With room to grow and cities build,

And riches in the ground.

Don’t ask why they would take this chance,

The answer changes not.

There’s sights no one has ever seen,

And things no one has got.

They are the first to live out there,

That’s why they want to go.

To be the first, do something new,

Know things no one can know.

So up they go beyond the sky,

Where it is always black.

They know the odds, that most of them,

Are never coming back.

But that is how it always is,

How it has always been.

The first to go have often stayed,

Now rest in graves unseen.

Now watch them soar beyond our world,

To their brave words now hark.

They take the future of our kind,

With them into the dark.

Cheers, Winston