Strategies in the Geometry of Homecoming

A song/non song

by Irini Miga

A place from a different timeline

(music..)

Far away from home

Things get a new form  (x2)

Words fall on the floor

One by one

“yellow”     

                “mirage”

      “pattern” 

Emptying what was full

While I drift deeper

And everywhere I go

I hear echoes of words  (x2)

At night the shadows that I see turn rhythm into lines

I follow them trying to stay on the surface

Because you see

Far away from home

Things get a new form  (x2)

Once there was a ______

Now a stack of blank pages

Until you ask me Where

And I say from There

Far away from home… (x2)

And everywhere I go… (x2)

(music…)

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