Heimat

There's a long thread,

as strong as steel cables,

tying me to the place

where I was born,

where I grew up,

where I spent almost

all my life.

What force can break

that thread?

Distance won't destroy

what time built.

But time can destroy

its own work—

for no single person

can be tied to different places,

and so every new cable

is built from the last.

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