Thoughts on my poem, perhaps?

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"Deep Space"

Great people lost their way on Earth;
I don't think space is much better,
the ineffable, the vast distances
reaching out and tantalizing our hearts and minds,
but the space is crippling, as a matter of fact,
it's cold as hell, so says a rocket man
still burning his fuel away alone in the sky
with the memory of a blue world long gone.

Hyperreality, or just reality on a larger scale,
the mind is not ready to take in;
a macrocosm coalesced in one moment, and a microcosm
expanded into infinity, the moment we could see,
the moment we looked into the sky and said
"Oh, what's that?"
To those who might say it doesn't rhyme, it doesn't rhyme explicitly except in one line, that's true, but there are some linguistic approximations such as "hell" and "fuel" that rhyme to some extent.
Also, the "I don't think" I feel is somewhat necessary, as it reinforces the humanity of the opinions, and also just that: that they are opinions.
 
i liked it, i had to look up half the words but i liked it. the only part i didn't like was the "i don't think" it just seems awkward, and makes me think that this poem is about what other people think but about what YOU think.
 
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