Launch And Be Free

I don’t want the same choices again, just the passion,
just the manic rush of blood, the chilling certainty,
the thrust and power abrupt and overwhelming.

I don’t want to teeter on the brink, I don’t want to
think my way through a myriad of frangible choices,

I just want to leap into space, trust gravity, cheat
the race to extinction, launch and be free.
© I.D. Carswell 2006