homesickness.
hits you like a bullet
right in the gut;
four-eighty three mph

heart-break.
hits you like a tidal wave
drowning out everything;
thirty foot walls of watery pain

nostalgia.
plays on your mind
plaguing you with the regret
of not living each day as if it were your last

*and it could be,
would be
if you're not as careful
as you say you are