Nostalgia to Where I Don’t Belong

BY SARAH AlBaiz

Illustrated by Sarah AlBaiz.

I long for a place

Where I can take off my rose-tinted glasses

And still see pink.

I hope for a space

Where being myself isn’t such a disgrace

But rather would be embraced.

A place that I would call a home,

Or someone to go home to. 

Someone to be home for.

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Why are you looking for a place to belong to?

Or a person to create that home for you?

Do you give a person the agency to build your home,

Or do you just trust them enough to share your own? 

But all the roses bloom within you,

Don’t you see the field of pink? 

Aren’t those all the flowers you wanted?

Or are they the ones I wanted to see?

Sarah AlBaiz (@baizquiat) is an art director, developer, and software engineering + cybersecurity student hoping to use what she learns to create resources and spaces the contribute to cultural and social development.