Spaceflight Dementia

Drifting along through a starless vacancy
 Confined within these iron walls
 A vile technology
 All the whispers that would rend the quiet sleep
 Confined within these iron walls
 A den of secrecy
 My fears aligning
 It hurts me so
 I will not go blindly
 A wild, roaming, misled route
 Corrosive specter of doubt
 On writhing, intertwining pathways in pursuit of sounds
 That exist beyond perceived reality
 Extrasensory receptors activating to anticipate
 The faintest and the fleeting vibrations
 Pulses of energy!
 Is that the Signal that I've been seeking?
 It's just cosmic background radiation from the Epoch of Recombination
 Interspersed through constellations
 Receptors at maximum capacity
 Limitation reached
 So close to what I need
 But it's overloading now
 Dead set on reaching what I've always sought
 Betting all on this
 Betting all that I have lost
 Spaceflight dementia creeps into the mind
 Delirium, it's going to be a bumpy ride!
 Undulating lines
 The colors now collide
 A ripple bleeding from the ceiling in undulating lines
 Kaleidoscopic, mezmeroptic, hallucinogenic trines!
 Breaths, short and fast
 Oxygen consumed at last
 Light, it came to me
 A gleam in my eye