On Cosmic Winds

To travel past the planets we must go

Our hearts and minds our interest do show

The void is where we'll find our destiny

Its rocks and stars and space where we must be

For answers we will travel high and low

Not near the speed of light we will be slow

The radiation will be our great foe

But there's so much that we have yet to see

To travel past the planets we must go

Within our gardens we see ideas grow

But on the cosmic winds is where they blow

Though tied to Earth we all wish to be free

And learn what will be our identity

So within spaceships we bring hearts in tow

To travel past the planets we must go

[Keeping with genre poetry for the moment, I offer up this rondeau as a birthday wish.]