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The Final Frontier

Minnow

If you're gonna dig, dig to the heavens!
It will never be the same, Yuri.

That very same step you took;
The very same distance that you looked;
In fifty years, none have ever come close
To what you have done; what you have seen.

Plenty have flown, plenty have left,
But never like you.
Never has any man felt your stars;
Not as you once did.

Now filled with earthly details,
Nations light up the night.
Fear and war and fire, it consumes us all.
And who is left to light up the sky?

It will never be the same, Yuri.

They can’t understand you anymore.
What could concern us up there?
Nobody feels as you did, Yuri.
Man has no need for pioneers.

The world has turned; life has gone on.
And some—but very few—try to find you,
But they have fallen short,
Content with chasing your shadow.

Whatever happened to us, Yuri?
How could humanity lose its hope, its spirit,
Its drive to push out and explore,
Our call to adventure?

And there’s nothing we couldn’t do to change.
What do we have to fear, but ourselves?
So how can we be stopped?
If we only acted as one.

In time, of course, science will march on,
And perhaps man will reach beyond your skies
But what worth could it have, what love could it bring?
What of it, if they couldn’t find you?

It will never be the same, Yuri.
 
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