Usually the one you are looking for
lives next door. – Franz Kafka
I live between sea and sky.
Earth, rocks, trees – I know the land
and cherish it, but ocean and space
are strangers to me.
I long to explore the great expanse –
from the far reaches of the cosmos
to the crushing depths of the deep.
But I let science do the searching,
sending a telescope deeper into space
and further back in time than ever
before, diving to find Stone Age relics
on the floor of the Baltic Sea.
Each day, new discoveries.
Meanwhile I take my pleasure
on a slender strip of land somewhere
between sea and sky.
We search, they say, for what is already
within our grasp. For ourselves,
perhaps, or for the great machine
that keeps it all running.
Between Sea and Sky by Sally Zakariya | Sandalwood & Rose Poetry Reed Diffuser
Sally Zakariya’s poetry has appeared in some 100 publications and been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Her publications include All Alive Together, Something Like a Life, Muslim Wife, The Unknowable Mystery of Other People, Personal Astronomy, and When You Escape. She edited and designed a poetry anthology, Joys of the Table, and blogs at www.butdoesitrhyme.com.
