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Father,
we are estranged by stars
a billion billion breaths away.
If I am cocooned in You
I need to know.
Let me stretch.
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Perhaps 'Mother Goddess' would be a better title to go with the 'cocooned' theme.
The first two lines don't quite work with 'estranged' and 'billion billion breaths' - they come across as just so many words.
Unless I missed a pun or something.
~ I think I just quoted myself - Achebe
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A very elegant statement of the problem of immanence and/or the impulse to explore. Immanence explains too much; exploration posits that that something remains to be explained.
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How are we estranged
by stars so far away?
What did they do to us
so far away?
Or were they the ones who moved
so far away --- in which case,
I don't think the issue is related. Otherwise, fair enough -- a case could be made for just removing the first two lines, though.