Re-entry

Like a celestial being, high in the sky,

Down to the Earth, to live or to die.

Body unbroken, spirit unbent,

No sense of regret, no need to repent.

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Around the Shenzou, rages a fire,

Testing the heat shield, Mother Earth's ire.

Spaceborn star child, returning to home,

From up in the stars, from the vacuum once roamed.

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And the fire it passes, clear is the air,

A sense of relief, gone is despair.

The chute it unfurls, descent is controlled,

Her breathing it steadies, Death's bell is not tolled.

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Soon there is blue, the sight of the sea.

Green is the grass, like an Eden to be.

The pod enters the water, to be a new tomb,

Let she struggles and fights, she exits the womb.

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Soft is the soil, it fits in her hands,

On the shore she collapses, unable to stand.

"Thank you," she whispers, re-entry's been made.

Now she can rise, no longer afraid.

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She looks up and laughs, space beyond her sight.

She's escaped its grasped, escaped its dark night.

The sun is shining, bright is Earth's day,

And she begins to walk, to find her own way.