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A Home I Cannot Name
<p>I wanna go home.</p><p>Not that home.</p><p>That home makes me feel unwanted.</p><p>Makes me question if I was ever wanted at all.</p><p>I don't know which home,</p><p>but definitely not that home.</p><p>That home,</p><p>tears drop.</p><p>Pain comes</p><p>that even pain reliever no fit help.</p><p>Aches I've never felt before.</p><p>Moods I've never known how to name.</p><p>That home?</p><p>My head hurts.</p><p>My heart hurts.</p><p>My mind hurts.</p><p>My soul bleeds.</p><p>And I'm not supposed to say anything...</p><p>Well, 'cause I'm 22, or not?</p><p>I'm an adult</p><p>behaving like a child</p><p>because apparently</p><p>being grown means knowing how to swallow pain quietly.</p><p>I want to cry,</p><p>but wetin go do my steeze?</p><p>I want to scream,</p><p>but my lungs can't handle it.</p><p>I want to disappear</p><p>for just a little while,</p><p>but apparently even that is too much to ask.</p><p>I want to drink,</p><p>but I don't want to become like him.</p><p>I want to say something,</p><p>but somehow saying I'm hurting</p><p>makes me selfish.</p><p>People go through worse.</p><p>People deal with it.</p><p>People survive.</p><p>So why can't I?</p><p>Maybe I'm just a lost cause.</p><p>A burden.</p><p>A gold digger.</p><p>A child wearing an adult age</p><p>and pretending the shoes fit.</p><p>I'm losing my mind.</p><p>And I'm losing more than just my mind, actually.</p><p>I'm losing pieces of myself</p><p>I don't know how to find again.</p><p>But I'm not all that important, abeg.</p><p>Besides, Jagunjagun ni mi</p><p>So...</p><p>we move.</p>
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