we have lift off

The text was about to levitate from the page the poem was so full of epiphanies.

ready for it

Poet, don’t just pull another epiphany out of the hat.

end this mess

It wasn’t that the poem was looking for an epiphany; it was looking for any kind of ending that would make sense of what came before.

wherever the end

The last lines of almost any poem, because they are the ending, will by default seem a grand summing up or a reaching for epiphany. Had the last few lines been anywhere else in the poem they’d be seen as much less portentous.