we were hunters and foragers
the frontier was everywhere
we were bounded only by the earth and
the ocean and the sky
the open roads - softly calls our little
track we asked globe as the mad house of
those hundred thousand millions of
worlds
we cannot even put our own planetary
home in order
Riven with rivalries and hatreds are we
to venture out into space by the time
we're ready to settle even the nearest
other planetary systems
we will have changed
the simple passage of so many
generations will have changed us
necessity will have changed
we're
and adaptable species
it will not be we reach Alpha Centauri
and the other nearby stars
it will be a species very like us but
with more of our strengths and fewer of
our weaknesses more confident
foreseen
capable and prudent
for all our feelings
despite our limitations and
fallibilities we UN's are capable of
greatness
what new wonders undreamt of in our time
we have wrought in another generation
and another
how far will our nomadic species have
wondered
by the end of the next century and the
next millennium
our remote descendants safely arrayed on
many worlds in the solar system and
beyond will be unified
by their common heritage
by their regard for their home planet
and by the knowledge that would ever
other life may be the only humans in all
the universe
come from Earth they will gaze up and
stream to find the blue . in their skies
they will marvel at how vulnerable the
repository of all our potential once was
how perilous our infancy how humble our
beginnings
how many rivers
we had to cross
before we found our way
yeah
yeah
yeah
