fellow traveler
travel along with the stars in the night
travel along while the world watches
travel along with us all, make us hope
for a time when we look up and see
look, look what we've done
look, look at the sky that we've made
travel along, help us search for the stars
lead the way into the sky
show us how small the world is
I'm scared of us, at war with ourselves
but could we have gone so high
if we hadn't been scared of the earth?
so travel along with us
in our search for the stars
(I like when Google reminds us what day it is. Today is Sputnik's anniversary. Sputnik roughly translates as "fellow traveler". I've heard that the space program probably wouldn't have succeeded if the US hadn't been locked in fierce, paranoid competition with the Soviet Union, each afraid that the other would get there first and use spacecraft as weapons of mass destruction. I'm sure the United Federation of Planets is very proud of this history.)
(Blogspot thinks I posted this a few hours ago. So in case you're the kind of person who actually checks the date and time of entries, today is tomorrow.)
