i stare at my reflection
in the mirror
i find a naive girl
staring back
why do you do this? i ask.
she cries.
i ask yet again,
why do you? why?
the girl in the mirror never stops crying.
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Hiraeth: A Collection of Poems
PoetryHiraeth: a Welsh concept of longing for home. A type of homesickness, but for a home that you can't return to, or one that perhaps never existed. Aren't we all looking for home?
