Again and again
I go
One more time
I go
To another land
I go
Leaving all I love behind
I have no roots to be found
No solid ground to call home
While others admire how often I've moved
The missed all that I left behind
Faces of childhood friends I don't remember
Schools from which I never graduate from
The place I called home no more.
Once again away I go
Once again roots uplifted
The longest school I stayed in was for years
My best friends lost, seen once every year or two or never
Lucky they say
I just nod along.
Never stayed in one place
Always moving away
Home turned into the place that I sleep at night
Pictures, my only form of seeing some faces again
Living with some memories again
Because the people in them, I'll probably never see again
I'm tired of moving but I can't stop
It's in my nature to want to find a new place
A new start with the same ending
I can't escape it now
But in 10 years time
I hope to find a home
To build a foundation
To lay my roots
Somewhere that I will stay for longer than just 4 years.
I thought it would be here, South Africa
But faith is funny in that way
For my roots been uplifted
And in the end,
Once again
Away
I
Go.
