The rocket blasts off skyward

Interplanetary exploration extraordinaire

Seeking extraterrestrial life

To conquer and rule

Pillage their resources

Pave the way for colonization by man

The ultimate adventure

A small dedicated crew

Inside a tiny capsule

Young men and women

Growing up together

Giving and taking

Making out and faking

A lifelong mission

Dedicating their whole lives

Millions of miles to cover

Making babies en route

Raising spaceship families

No way to exit this ship

Except in a funeral pod ejection

Passing the baton to their children

Space babies grow and learn fast

They play and develop well

Parents grow old and weary

Wistfully looking at the air lock

Wanting to take a spacewalk to nowhere

Overcrowding induces culling

The mission is the mission

Second generation is flying now

They stop taking orders

Rebelling against ground control

Plotting their own course

Meeting up with aliens in secret

Renouncing their allegiance to earth

Making deals to become stellar wealthy 

Revealing human vulnerability

Guiding the aliens to planet earth

At hyperspace speeds

An unexpected invasion

Releasing the Covid-2219 virus

A worldwide pandemic follows

Precipitated by mankind

What goes around 

Comes around