Hiraeth

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Only when we feel a cold breathing at the back of our neck

A chilling, thrilling breathing at the back of our neck

Do we realize how stranded we had become

From our dearest home called 'Meaning.'


As I keep sleeping and eating, wandering and feeling

Away from my home, dear Meaning,

I turn deaf to my own hearing

Due to the music of the spheres now lacking,

I turn blind to my own sight

Due to the purest light now lacking.


But I do not care and I do not share

That much I consider fair

As I walk away from my home, dear Meaning.

The more I seer the waves of fire,

The more I delve with agony of desire.


I witheringly dig the ground - my own sepulcher

And the chilling, thrilling breathing at the back of my neck

Makes me realize how stranded I had become

From my dearest home called Meaning.


I stand in awe, I shiver and I smile

Beguiling my empty soul into repeating

The entrancing words in the cold breathing:

'I'm coming home, my dear Meaning.'

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