no place like home by Abhilasha Ghosh | One Poem Only
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no place like home
Abhilasha Ghosh
coming back feels different—
as if the walls have softened
while you were gone,
as if the light has rehearsed
the exact way it will fall on your face
when you step inside.
you notice small things first:
the old curtain breathing in the breeze,
the smell of evening settling on the floor,
the faint echo of who you used to be
still lingering in the corners
like a loyal ghost.
distance does this—
carves out space in your chest
so the familiar can return
with a strange, tender sharpness.
a house you once rushed through
becomes a sanctuary
the moment you walk away from it.
and standing at the threshold now,
red shoes dusty from everywhere else,
you feel that quiet click inside—
recognition, surrender, belonging.
dorothy’s words arrive softly in red shoes,
“there’s no place like home.”
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