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I don’t think I know what home feels like yet Maybe home is a lone, weathered bench Tucked beneath a canopy of trees in Central Park It might be in the enticing neon of Tokyo Its electric fingers beckoning me to get lost in them I see it in my unruly bedroom In the familiar scent interlaced in the fabric of my sheets But how would I know, right? Maybe home is burying my head in the crook of your arm Letting the steady rhythm of your breathing lull me to sleep It might be when you laugh at my jokes Your nose crinkling up, your head thrown back I see it in the way the very earth holds its breath Just to listen to you speak But how would I know, right?
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Jul 19, 2016
Jul 19, 2016 at 6:08 AM UTC
Hiraeth
I don’t think I know what home feels like yet Maybe home is a lone, weathered bench Tucked beneath a canopy of trees in Central Park It might be in the enticing neon of Tokyo Its electric fingers beckoning me to get lost in them I see it in my unruly bedroom In the familiar scent interlaced in the fabric of my sheets But how would I know, right? Maybe home is burying my head in the crook of your arm Letting the steady rhythm of your breathing lull me to sleep It might be when you laugh at my jokes Your nose crinkling up, your head thrown back I see it in the way the very earth holds its breath Just to listen to you speak But how would I know, right?
Hiraeth (n) - a homesickness for a home you can't return to, or that never was
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Jul 19, 2016
Jul 19, 2016 at 6:08 AM UTC
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