Countdown

TEN   Our sun burns hot and our sky is not sky anymore.
NINE  We can no longer survive here.
EIGHT So we put all our hopes in one rocket.
SEVEN We are a young race, our technology is meager.
SIX   (Else we would not be in this mess.)
FIVE  This means our payload must be very small.
FOUR  There is no point in encoding our lack of culture onto microchips.
THREE And there is no way to save the living.
TWO   I just hope someone up there knows what to do
ONE   With a thousand eggs and a thousand sperm.