Earth, You Have Returned to Me

Can you imagine waking up every morning on a different planet, each with its own gravity? Slogging, wobbling, wavering. Atilt and out-of-sync with all that moves and doesn’t. Through years of trial and mostly error did I study this unsteady way — changing pills, adjusting the dosage, never settling. A long time we were separate, O Earth, but now you have returned to me.