Monday, October 7, 2024

The Yearning to go Home

My heart yearns to go home

but there’s no home left there

family is gone, moved

landscape changed

 

My gut tightens

with the yearning

to walk the old trails

to be out in nature

 

To remember

those times of feeling safe

to let the woods give comfort

to my sorrowed heart

 

But it is no more

no home, no old trails

paths changed

the property unrecognizable

 

Aloneness eats at my soul

I feel I have no roots

no connections

no sense of belonging

 

I’m left floundering

like the end of a rope

flopping in the wind

with nothing to tie it to

 

There’s no old home

to return to.

 

--Sasha Wolfe

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