Love Poem: Home
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Written by: Judy Ann Varghese

Home

Love can move mountains,
And impair one's judgements
Make you soar high like a bird
Or so in tales, I've seen and heard.

Been watching cheesy romcoms
Couples dancing in balls and proms
Read lots about love at first sight
Thinking this is bogus at its height.

Ridiculing lovers on one hand
While secretly wanting one so grand
Hoping to someday find my mate
Not knowing I'd be in this state. 

Cut to a million odd years later,
A few ounces of wisdom greater
Happened to be, by a chance so grim, 
Of this menacing love, another victim. 

In a place, so habitual and familiar
Your absence made me feel peculiar
So lost and empty, surprising me
Yearning to just up and flee.

But now that you are here with me
I'm appalled at how this came to be
For what was once a land unknown
Is slowly starting to feel like home.