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Nurtured by nature in a quiet corner

 Left alone to reach potential

 Quest for adventure is an ingrained trait

 Gift or curse of sentience

 Little explorer as an ambassador

 Perhaps will be the only evidence left

 Civilisation that has reached outward

 Looking back on the pale blue …. dot

 How long will we have to wait to know?

 To discover whether we are alone

 Drake’s equation inspired a message

 A Voyager will carry those hopes

 The farthest flung object of mankind from home

 A mariner in an endless ocean

 The grand tour is only just beginning

 and may herald the greatest moment ….of all time

 A collective outlook

 This piece of metal, immortal, floating in heaven

 Without understanding, existence is for naught

 Observance is a purpose in itself

 How long will we have to wait to know?

 To discover whether we are alone

 Drake’s equation inspired a message

 A traveller carries those hopes

 Termination shock, heliosphere

 Outside the zone of the solar wind

 The space probe Voyager

 The spirit of man