Mari[anne]

Hiraeth

Do you ever feel weirdly nostalgic?

To just crave for a place you’ve never known yet felt.

It confounds the mind and assaults the heart.

 

There’s this indescribable emotion that crashes onto you like a wave.

Hitting you with a myriad of sensations as your mind tries to make sense of it all.

 

It is warmth, nostalgia, happiness and peace.

But it is also longing, sadness and loss.

 

Longing to go wherever this unknown place is.

Sadness that we only briefly bask in just this moment of overwhelming warmth.

Loss for a home or love lost.

 

Is it perhaps a remnant of a life long forgotten?

Or is it just a void within us that yearns to be filled?