Today's featured poem is Places We Leave Behind.
Places We Leave Behind
There are places we leave behind,
and there are places that leave us behind.
It hurts the soul to know this,
to know that there are certain places
we will never set foot in again,
such as childhood terrains
or the spaces that made us
who we are.
Realizing this truth casts
a cloud over one's life,
knowing that home is forever buried
in the archive of the heart,
and that exile will always leave us behind.
By Mohammed Moussa
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