the opposite of homesickness,
the colossal inclination to escape
from the imprisonment of settlement:
the undying tug towards hallowed freedom
and forbidden adventure to ethereal lands--
even if the idea is nothing more than a dream,
a hallucination, a figment of pure imagination
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lebensmüde
PoetryLebensmüde is a German word that has no English equivalent. The word literally means being tired of life and was used to describe the dramatic and soul-crushing emotional agony of young Romantic poets. Nowadays, the word is simply used for when some...
