Where we Belong

Beneath a sky,
Older than memory
Earth taught us time,
Gravity and longing.

Yet the universe,
Never felt like a cage,
Only a distant calling.

The moon, our silent mate,
Shines with stolen light,
Turning darkness into guidance,
Keeper of wonder, and sentiment.

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A rock that shapes,
The tides of oceans,
A force that stirs,
Unseen tides within the soul.

And when our eyes,
Drift toward the stars,
We are not fleeing the earth,
But recalling,

Mankind was never meant,
To perish here,
Only to rise here,
And wander through,
The endless cosmos,
Where our story belongs.

- Sasika Buwanekabahu

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