Hiraeth

Playing among the vegetables and flowering fruits

Climbing trees at night while playing hide and seek

Raking leaves into piles before hopping right on in

Picking up those twigs and leaves as our chore

Pushing around the windchime as it spun us a melody

Hopping a fence to play on the school swing set

Building a rock fort that would be destroyed next recess

Heading inside to shred papers, with permission of course

Watching movies, the makeshift pillow fort sturdy around us

Laughing though we’ve seen them all many times

Hearing a call to eat, fresh buns and iced tea waiting

Scarfing down the food like we haven’t eaten in days

Becoming sleepy, our energy finally waning

Cuddling up to Grammy as she read us a story

Getting tucked in to bed, good night kisses all around

My sister and I spent more time at my grandma’s, I think,

So, while it wasn’t our family’s home,

It was ours.

A home -

Something that, when we leave it behind,

our whole body yearns to return

even when it no longer exists.

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