#NapoWrimo2025
#ArtoonsInnPoetryParlour
#Day23
I have two lives and one belongs to me. The other one – I belong to it.
For it has drawn me into its clasp,pinned me, put its seal on me and takes me where it goes.
Who are you, someone asks.
I smile. One life of mine craves to be seen, heard. The other wraps itself around, silencing the unheard voices that clamour within.
It owns me.
Sometimes, in my dreams, I hear the rustle of leaves, the falling rain, the lilting voices of women singing.
I dream of home, my roots, my love.
And when the alarm breaks the silence of the night, I rise – in another land, another home – my other life.
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