they say home is the place
from which you first saw the world
but i moved away when i was a baby
and don’t remember anything about it
they say home is the village
in which you spent your childhood
but i have lived mine in different places
and never really felt attached to any of them
they say home is a feeling
that you simply cannot put into words
but i haven’t figured out my emotions yet
and i’m spending my time on describing them
they say home is a person
with whom any place could feel like home
but i must be a cottage in a scandinavian forest
and others have always looked at it from a distance
they say home is everything
i have never lived in twenty years
and now i am starting to think that maybe
all i have to do is try to be my own home for a while
© Anna Portmann 2023-01-03