The Unfamiliar Home
By Yasmin Ullah
I keep missing a place I barely know.
Home _ untouched
families I can never return to,
how I long for their hugs.
Countries are known
for architecture, buildings, landscapes,
so accessible on-screen,
but on-screen _ how can you know
anything
about beauty missed.
None of it makes it
to the cover of magazines,
yet I wish you knew this place,
my place, my home,
taken from me,
I wish _ you saw the family
they ripped apart from me,
I wish you knew
through even one or two pictures,
so, you would at least be able to relate,
and maybe... only maybe,
you would cherish this place
as much _ as I do,
Perhaps you would
try to protect it,
from tyrannical oppression of the innocents,
in their own home.
How _
I wish you could know.
Crash
At the shore
Wave after wave
Crashing against rocks
Carrying news
From faraway.
I sat
On one side
This water
So vast
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