The sky shimmers


    spotted with stars, it simmers


    in slowly and sweetly


    like the taste of my mother’s porridge


    in the comfort of my home


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    as though a blanket of love


    although I’m now alone


    Under the weight of its bearers


    fights a lone sword of flames


    forcing fire to become iron


    until it becomes ash again


    the water is forgotten


    the remedy wasted


    its eternal battle ends


    but it has always known loneliness


    Look up and see


    our stars are one and the same


    as the before and the after


    and the pain will wane


    with homecoming stars


    remember there are no imprisoning bars


    for a constellation might just be


    both you and me


    humanity together into eternity