Elsewhere

Elsewhere

I say goodbye and leave to a place of elsewhere

Dissimilar to the here and now smells

The laughter I am use too

The historical tongues and rhythms of kinsfolk

Wrinkled with wisdom and time

A tear escapes and is quickly brushed away

An expression of strength replaces the one reflecting sadness

I turn away thinking I can do this

Somewhere a distance from home

Where faces blur into one race

Faced am I with new beginnings and learning

A culture almost malevolent

Childlike I approach

Unaware how to act

Or react to situations unknown

Confidence fallen I have none

Once so strong now consumed with weakness

I kiss a farewell to my family dreams

Distant home of mine

A memory of past living

Where the ‘here’ has transformed into the ‘there’

No longer the ‘now’

Forgiven I hope from my ancestors

For leaving the land of my birth

 I shall never see you again

(Submitted to Centre of migration, policy and society (COMPAS) poetry Competition 2013

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A Moment in Time

Kisses on the collar bone

The way your fingers twirled a strand of my hair

Your familiarity relaxing moments of insanity

And need

I sigh and reach out to you

But you vanish as my fingers grasp just air

Here I sigh and bury my face deeper into your t-shirt

I smell you

Our marriage of our youth was one of new and interest

Knowledge of each other developed

Nights of bodies entwined into one

Days of thoughts and mind merging

We blossomed as a bud into a rose

I loved you

You moved me and gave me all you could possible give

Of you that is

It took and consumed me

It held and reassured me

I didn’t care there were days when we had no food

Or the times when it rained we woke afloat in puddles

Even the looks others gave at the flith on our clothes

I admired you

A change was coming you said one day

Sometimes you sang those words

With lips gently touching my belly swollen with child

Opportunities you said

For improving life for us and our child

Faraway lands with streets paved with gold

You were preparing to leave

Motivated were you

I supported you

Now I look around the room I call home

Saddened at the time gone by

The days drifted into weeks

Weeks into years

Parcels and money arrive monthly

But we are no longer the same

 I missed you

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