The Eyes of the Golden Records
Voices of Voyager
Lub-dub lub-dub lub-dub…
Houston can you hear me?
My heart is still beating!
The Pale Blue Dot
Gleaming so perfectly
…Out of reach
Treasures of worlds
Clouds of swirling masterpiece
Enveloping mysteries…
But nothing compares to thee
Pale Blue Dot
“Suspended in a sunbeam”
Oh, Jupiter tell me!
The origins of Earth and Life
Please! Let me meet
All your lovely satellites
Europa’s gushing plumes
So closely meets the beat
Of the golden sounds inside of me
Earth is a piece of everything
I sure hope they are watching
They can’t miss what I’m about to see…
Blazing hexagonal poles
Intricate awe-inspiring rings
Hazy Titan makes sure we meet
With my partner, the journey starts
And Uranus’ moons are revealed from the dark
This world… these structures… never seen before!
Neptune’s great dark spot
Triton’s strange path
I could explore here forever
But I wasn’t meant to last
The fly-by is cap
My last look back
The golden records… spin so fast
Itching for an outsider to adore
The beauties of life and death
Love and culture
“Every hopeful child… inventor and explorer”
Lost in the cosmic sea
Lub-dub-lub-dub-lub-dub
Their heartbeats
Will always live inside me
To interstellar space, I bring with peace
About the Creator
Alyssa Luongo
Fueled with wonder about the world & beyond.
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science" -A.E
University Of Florida '21
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