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Returning Home

January 1, 2022

Returning Home

Shay Siegel

Trigger Warning: Depression

Home
Is the hole inside my heart
Where I bring my cup of coffee
Curl onto the weathered couch
Sip
Rest an aching spine
With the lust of the past
That wasn’t that good
But we want what’s not good
Most of the time.

 

Shay Siegel

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