A Galaxy Far Away

By Jacqueline Ayala, Editor

Why are you going, love?

You’re off to a place

I cannot follow.

I’m stuck, watching as you

Fly and fly away,

Left to heal what slowly gets shattered.

My heart. My body. My soul.

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Our stars no longer align;

You’re in a galaxy far away.

Where do I go?

Why, I must stay;

I cannot go with you. 

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Why can’t I go?

Go to the galaxy where

I see life, I see the water, I see the sun.

Why must I stay so far

In this place of grim, of fog, of mud?

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You’re going to a galaxy far away.

And me?

Where do I go, love?

For I can’t follow you,

Nor do I think you want me to.

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I watch from the ground,

Looking up at the moon.

Can you see the same moon as I do

In your galaxy far away?