I sat in my ship, the Earth a tiny jewel of a blue dot, one billion miles away.
A fast disappearing dot in a mass of other dots in the deep vastness of black.
As I touched the controls on the softly glowing screen, I knew there was no going back.
My sad eyes gazed out, transfixed by that scene - I truly wished there had been another way.
I felt a bitterness at leaving my fellow earthlings, because of the things so many had lacked!
I felt ashamed and dismayed at my peoples arrogance and ignorance.
With the obsessions, oppression, corruption, war and outright indifference.
Never stopping to think of a much bigger picture, and our races humbled insignificance.
But still distorting, manipulating, lying, crying, obfuscating and contorting - to seek deliverance.
I turned. Thankfully I had a new world ahead of me. I started the thrusters and set my ships course - and I never looked back.