#IkoPoetryChallenge

WHERE IS HOME?

Home is in my dreams

Where I might find you

You, unchanged

You, pain-free

You, created by the figment of my imagination

It is in my dreams that I get to feel your presence

Bask in your embrace

Your warmth

It is where my nervous system is calm

My mind is quiet and not full of background noise

It is in my dreams where you're alive

Your heart, beating

Your temperature, warm

Not the biting cold that it is now

For in reality, I am met with the truth

The undeniable truth

That you've gone cold

That you're 6 feet under

That you're not here with me

So, I shall bask in my dreams

Hoping and praying that I never wake up

Because this is the only place I might find you

I might hear you

I might tell you about my days

The only place I feel tranquility wash over me

So, home is not the harsh reality that I live in

Home is in my dreams of you

Staying awake is difficult

Looking at pictures of you in my phone is impossible

I don't want to burst the perfectly blown bubble

The bubble I've created against reality

Home is the memories of your smile

Your laugh

Your entire existence in the world in my mind

That I created to escape my harrowing reality