Galactica
by Vahid Dejwakh
Pulsating rhythmical beats from a cage where meet
Ephemeral feet and eternal feats,
My soul took flight on that solitary night
When Siddhartha’s story by Herman Hesse
I came across, while on the wings—of an albatross
Never before had I questioned more
What beyond my understanding’s door
Could lead me at that moment and forevermore—
Towards new discoveries, towards another shore
Decisively forsaking my self-complacency in the making,
I, undertaking a quest similar to the novel’s best,
Stepped beyond my limited nest to test the wavy wild seas
And experience uncertainty as majestically as ease
Never settling down long enough to be planted,
And rethinking the truths I had always taken for granted,
My life has since steered across uncounted, uncharted rivers—
Some tragic, some ecstatic, but all filled with indissoluble magic.