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Where you belong (Lekshmy S Nair, Kollam)

Published on 21 May, 2020
Where you belong (Lekshmy S Nair, Kollam)
We keep searching our entire lives,  
For something precious that we lost,
Maybe even before time was born.   
So we build homes in things we find,  
As if to make up for that loss.

Maybe we carve comfortable every day,
Of our younger selves, lost somewhere,
Between turning twelve and seventeen,  
And we search for people and places,  
To recreate what once we knew and felt.   
We could choose perhaps to  
Pick and prune and cut into shape,
Build something proud and majestic,  
Instead of the home we began to search for.   
But sometimes, it happens simply, easily,  
Like the heart chose and didn’t care,
Someone flawed, different, imperfect.
So then be change.

So what is it we search for,     
In all the people we meet?
Some subconscious inkling of all the  
Memories to be made,  
Stories to be told,
Laughter that has not yet broken out.   
Something magnetic perhaps that tells you,     
you belong
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Sudhir Panikkaveetil 2020-05-23 15:48:34
This is simple introspection of the poet about how we lose something where we belong. It is a lesson of life that most of the time we do not get what we look for. We expect to hear someone says you belong here. Keep writing Ms.Lekshmy Nair.
മലയാളത്തില്‍ ടൈപ്പ് ചെയ്യാന്‍ ഇവിടെ ക്ലിക്ക് ചെയ്യുക