What they don't tell you about going home

After 21 years and a whole life

What they don’t tell you about going home
after 21 years
is that oxygen will embrace you
and you will feel alive
but in the same breath feel like your lungs can’t function

Do you think the 12,971,998 people in the city felt a difference in the air?

they don’t tell you that each hug will feel like the taste of a ripe passion fruit
so sweet
and so fleeting
becaus…