Reality

I’m back in Dhaka after a lovely summer in Denmark – back without the rest of the family as the boys have started school in Denmark and Torben will stay with them for a while. The house seems empty and I feel I am needed elsewhere… taking up my Dhaka life again requires some effort. I try to express something of what I feel in this poem:

Reality

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I was so there, so rooted,

Feet firm, running, laughing, loving

With them… and them, and him, and her

And you; it was so right and so real

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Here now, the ground is not quite stable

Reality has pulled on different robes

I hear the story end, but missed its starting

I laugh too, but I didn’t share the joke

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Tomorrow brings new tales, I’ll join the laughing

Days pass and walk securely on the ground

Dull aches replace the sharper pains of missing,

Adjusting expectations; I will be here

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  2. Great poem! I liked it as it touches my heart and depicts the feeling of my current situation.
    Thanks!
    P.S. I’m very happy that you live in Dhaka !

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