Where is Home?

by Ojo Taiye / May 29th, 2016

Is home the place of birth?
Or the burial with mirth?
No.

Is home green hills?
No.

Is home country dawns?
No.

Is home city lights?
No.

Where then is home?

Gaze at the fate that lies beyond the sun,
beyond the smelling of time and feeling because that is home
a home to return to –
When this noose is loose
And Ori* becomes parachutes
sailing against gravity

* Ori — soul

Ojo Taiye is a twenty- three-year-old microbiology graduate from Nigeria who loves books and Anime in that order. He has had "some of his muddled thoughts published in a few e-magazines." Read other articles by Ojo.

This article was posted on Sunday, May 29th, 2016 at 8:02am and is filed under Poetry.