Where do we belong

By Марк Баштаненко

Written 2023-05-17


The everyone you love, the every one you know

The every human being, every tiny birth

Is just a grain of sand in universal flow

On the blue planet called Earth

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In the place we call home we see a million stars

We launch the shuttles to discover space

Science teaches us how to lead our lives

We made up a time to count the days


In the valleys by the rivers we build towns

And then we run away from them, because of life

We search ourselves somewhere in the mountain browns

Having lived like this and never being alive


We build skyscrapers to reach the sky

To find the gods, to be the lords

We paint landscapes to please our eyes

And some may find their names on honor boards


We made up countries to devide the world

And formed alliances afterwards

We make up the rules and start the wars

To later enter into peace accords


Above the clouds in dizzy heights

We travel faster then a speed of sound

Between the mountains in the northern lights

And then again we descend to the ground


And like the mice we spin a wheel

We do not give up, despite the odds

To be destroyed against our will

By the same people with life in airpods


While searching for life balance, when go high

We fall in love, make children, tame the dogs

Without noticing how the life flies by

Until read about known names in necrologue

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Is this the place we used to love?

Is this the place that I've been dreaming of

Oh, simple thing, where have you gone?

I'm gettin' old, and I need something to rely on