Separated from home
Against my own will
I yearned to return
Prayed for any way out
Longed for anything to happen
So I could return
So distracted by the place I could no longer be
A thick yellow smog clouded my mind
And it did not matter to me who got hurt
Never smiling, always miserable
There was not an ounce of happiness
While I was in that dreaded place
I did not acknowledge their pain
And did not even talk to them
Even when she left
Filled with distraught
I did not care
I yearned for home
Even when he lost his job
I only yearned for home
It had become an idol
He weeped and weeped
And still I only thought of home
Then he told me I could return
A light flickered inside my heart
As if those were the only words
That could enter the ice cold chamber
He wouldn’t be there with me, he said
And still I did not care
Just the thought of returning home
And when we said our good-bye
I hugged him realizing
How much I had hurt him
And her
That I had been home all along
And as much as I begged
Time would not stop for me
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