Space Cadet

You're a space cadet so you don't fret
When your check engine light
Comes on in your rocket
On the outer edge you say your pledge
And pray that your wings are fully fledged
You've left the atmosphere
You're in the clear
Even though you've lost control
Of the ability to steer
So directionless
You cannot miss
When you're firing an astronaut
Straight into the abyss
And you swing around the moon
Leave orbit towards Jupiter
You'll be there next June
And you'll land on Mars this May
Just a dead barren wasteland is what they used to say
But you wouldn't believe your eyes son
With Olympus Mons on the horizon
Just the first stop on this cosmic highway
Ceres, Io, and Europa are the next along the way
You leap passed the Kuiper belt
Armstrong would be so proud
Inspiration trailing like comets through the Oort cloud
The plains of infinity is a likely place to choose
When you're searching for divinity and a universal truth
You've spent your entire life
Wandering and chasing
For glimpses of an underlying
Fabric of creation
And unless there's a knowledge
Of space travelers long forgotten
This may be the closest
Anyone has ever gotten
You wouldn't believe your eyes son
With Olympus Mons on the horizon
As you're blazing past Saturn and Titan
And you're gazing into Neptune from Triton
Well you wouldn't believe your eyes son
As a star collapses into a diamond
Far too brilliant for you to be frightened
As you're standing face to face with Orion