Reflections of Home

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“… to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we’ve ever known.”
― Carl Sagan

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For as long as I have known myself,

I have been searching for a place,

called home.

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I have named many locations,

home,

for the sake of simplicity,

but

I never believed,

I was home.

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When people asked,

Where are you from?

I didn’t know.

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I gave many answers,

here, there,

for the sake of simplicity,

but

I didn’t have roots,

I was a windblown seed.

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Then I saw it,

the place,

home.

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In a photograph,

taken from afar,

of a little blue dot,

roots of gravity,

keeping me here,

it’s as simple as that.

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“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”
― Helen Keller

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