Sojourn

Stepping into this world with the eyes of a child

The warmth in the suit against the frigid atmosphere

How far is home

When is it there

Ancestral explorers crossing the ocean

Eyes on a new world

But this

This is something else

This is another world

A world not meant for us to exist

An unnatural habitat

With no culture tattooed upon its surface

There is nothing here to sustain mankind

Even less there is nothing

Conquistador with no one to conquer

Except my own loneliness

Bleak and barren but somehow beautiful

Purple sands against a sea of oblivion

My foot lingers longer than it should

A subconscious action knowing the weight of this historic event

Man was here

Man is here

It was prettier in my dream but everything usually is

The feeling indescribably perfect

An anxiety washes over realizing you’re alone for the first time

To be the only one awoken through stasis

Will I survive the return

I’m already immortalized

I’ll be younger than my children when I arrive on earth

Everything now recorded through my iris mech

But it won’t be received for days

Another small step for man and a giant leap for humanity - I’ve said it thousands of times in my mind.

What can I say that will be eternal

What will I say now that I’ve arrived

Man ventures into the vastness of all things unknown never to return again to the people that we were…

I plant this flag of Earth to make known to all interstellar travelers that we have arrived.

I pledge fielty to Earth

May she be forever Honored

May she be graced with humanity until the star fades

May her story be glorious and never ending

May we explore deep and wide