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This is it

I've finally found my impetus

Escaping this belligerence

Initiating launch sequence

I'm leaving this apocalypse

Facing infinite abyss

Gambling a hypothesis

Soaring through the ominous

Recklessly into the unknown

To be free I'm leaving my home

Goodbye, you'll never see me again

Sudden crash

Sustained damage from the blast

Warp drive losing power fast

I'm not dying in this craft

This jump will surely be my last

Sending emergency broadcast

Engines nearing critical mass

Staring down the hourglass

Pressure

Crushing the cockpit

I’m not going to make it

The cracks syncopated

My ship is serrated

Perhaps it was fated

To die liberated

Over life alienated

Vision ebbs

Silence grows

Breathing comes to halt

Time stands still

Under threat

Of sensory assault

Losing my grip

Trust in my ship

Consciousness slips

As life fades

Cold

Far from home

Don't know where I'm going

Abyssal unknown

Bold

Unguided I roam

Drifting astray

I'm on my own