PLANET
by Maiji/Mary Huang

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The wind breathes through you and into me
It's just like back home: a restless sky,
a restless sea. I'd almost believe
that it was back home.

I'd almost believe. Only days ago,
metal wings left me behind.
Lost, like a silly child.
But I have to admit-
I can't regret it.

Alien world, or is it alien me?
Gazing out into celestial debris
For once, gravity doesn't pull me down,
just pulls me.

I could calculate the distance
from star to burning star
in AU, light-years, or pars-
No. It doesn't matter.
It doesn't matter at all.

This is where you are.

Waves transmit like waves across the endless sea.
Waves seeking waves beyond a widening dream.

And one day, one swiftly tilting day,
metal wings greater than you've ever seen
will glide over you, searching.
Space will close, and I'll fly home.
That's reality.

A windful earth. A windless sky.
The wind wanders freer on this ground than in those skies.
I was lost; leave me lost. Forget reality.
I can survive on imagining-

I found real wings.

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Author’s Notes: Some notes :P
- AU (astronomical units), light-years and parsecs are different units used to calculate exceptionally large distances, usually for celestial bodies, planets, stars, galaxies etc.
- “swiftly tilting” is a reference to Madeleine L’Engle’s book, A Swiftly Tilting Planet.

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