Asteroidea

Keep your
tales of faraway nebulae
and distant horizons pushed ever farther;
those gleaming constellations in the sky died years ago.

But the seas house breathing stars
and straightforwardly descends
a veil of womb-darkness
deeper traveled.

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Gravity

The astronaut who once dreamed
Of milky galaxies spread
Like jewels on the velvet sheath of space
Now finds himself longing for
The green veld of his fathers
And a firm ground that pulls him
Into an embrace that says:
He is loved and too precious to be let go of.