E12: Home - Dragos Radu

Dragos Radu - Home

 

Written: 2022

 

Summary & Story:

Throughout my life, I had many moments where I missed my home. Not home in the sense of a birthplace, people or things that I've been closely acquainted with during my life, but home within, the altar within each of us. The place that always calls us back to ourselves, to inquire, to be curious. The place that is most meaningful to us as only by knowing it and not merely acknowledging it, can we get to know ourselves. This is a poem about that. I hope you enjoy it.

 

Poem:

There is a sun

I die to see again.

Not the sun that

Sets and rises,

But the one always up

And shining,

Illuminating all beings

From within.

The sun, which makes life move,

And energy flow,

Tirelessly in the soul.

I crave it so much

I crave it as a home.

Now the lights are off

And my soul is blinded

By the never-ending winter

Of the night.

There is calm,

But there’s no peace.

There is hope,

But there’s no light to guide it.

I miss the sun,

I miss its warmth and grace,

I miss my home.

 

There’s a bell ringing

In the night.

A state of alert

Established in the meadow

Where I sit dreaming

Of light and peace.

The sound breaks

My dreaming.

It awakens me

From a restless sleep,

That seemed endless at first.

As I open my eyes,

Light breaks in

So radiant, so powerful,

And with a rush of adrenaline

It stands me up,

Sun-gazing, filling every cell

Of my body with light,

Peace,

And ultimately freedom.

I now can hear the birds sing,

The caressing wind blowing

Softly through my hair,

The vibrant air of a new spring day.

 

I feel at home, and I feel safe.

I have always been.

I will always be,

Despite the depths and darkness of my dreams.

Once I open my eyes,

There will always be light,

There will always be sun.

There will always be peace

And I will always be home / I have a home waiting for me.

What is life if not just a walk in the dark,

Where one’s path is always lit up by the light of his soul. 

 

Credits: Dragos Radu (2022, The Diary Of A Nobody)