The engines hum like ancient prayers Steel and fire in midnight air We leave the ground we learned to trust With borrowed faith and measured thrust Years of waiting in our veins Maps of hope, equations, pain Every dream we couldn’t say Counts down quietly today In the silence of orbit I breathe No weight on the past holding me We rise on the edge of the known Between the stars, between home If tomorrow has a sound It’s this quiet we’ve found In the silence of orbit I see Who we’re becoming, finally free Screens glow soft like thinking minds Learning us in real time Hands let go, the body learns How to float, how not to burn Gravity loosens every lie No up, no down, no need to try Just a future opening slow As the blue below lets go In the silence of orbit I breathe No weight on the past holding me We rise on the edge of the known Between the stars, between home If tomorrow has a sound It’s this quiet we’ve found In the silence of orbit I see Who we’re becoming, finally free Mars is waiting, red and still Not a promise, but a will Every code, every machine Built from something once unseen In the silence of orbit I breathe Old fears fall away from me We are more than flesh and steel We are dreams learning how to feel If tomorrow calls our name We won’t answer with the same In the silence of orbit I see Human hearts in zero G We don’t escape who we are We carry Earth into the stars
