WHERE IS HOME?

It's closing time

Miriam is anxious 

Eager to get away

From the world of chaos

The compulsory busyness called a “job”

A certain building calls her name

Its cold, dreary solitude is all her heart

Wants, nay, needs

Mary wants to go home.

Zeke has been at sea 

For weeks and months,

Busy as a bee

Exhausted to the bone 

In his mind's eye,he sees,

A damsel, bright and fair, and two cherubs

Their warm hugs are all his heart

Wants, nay, needs

Zeke wants to go home.

Diamond's sighs have become,

A pain  to those who sit beside her

For she sighs loudly, and heavily, too,

Her stomach grumbles, but not for food.

Few metres away, a bookstore looms large

Her pocket however, looms small.

She desperately longs to bury herself

In that fresh, crisp scent

Of paper and ink.

The black and white drawl of words,

The free transport to unknown worlds,

This bliss, this magic, are all her heart 

Wants, nay, needs

Diamond wants to go home.

I, on the other hand, am quite greedy

'tis a sin, I know, but oh, what sin!

For I long for the best of all worlds.

I long for the solitude that Miriam craves,

Oh, how needed!

For the hugs that Zeke seeks

Oh, for a hug to stifle my pain!

For the books that Diamond wants

Oh,if it only took a story to soothe pain!

And even, for a hot plate

Of my favourite dish

For in the midst of my pain,

I am famished, dear reader!

A double tragedy, you may say,

But nonetheless,

All these, are what my heart

Wants, nay, needs

I want to go home.

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