Hiraeth

a free-verse fictional poem on a beautiful welsh word

he felt a tinge, weird homesickness, engulfing him! homesickness for people, he’d never met, homesickness for places, he’d never visited, a strange yearning, a strong hiraeth!

never did he have a home, nor a proper family, he knew ’tis his mind, an illusion of nostalgia. what he loved, albeit a mirage, was the feeling, the false feeling of a wooden roof, somewhere, the false feeling of waves of laughter, underneath, awaiting his arrival, and the false longing of his soul, to reach that hypothetical space!

Hiraeth is a welsh word which expresses the homesickness for a home to which you cannot return, a home that probably never was, a strange yearning, a bout of nostalgia, grief for all the lost places in your life!

Thanks to Dr. Mehmet Yildiz and the entire editing team of Illumination for the wonderful work they are doing.