This resonates a lot. I live over 1,000 miles/1,609 kilometers away from my parents. I understand to a certain limit.
Take Me Home
Sunlight seeping over the sloping hills
A small mountain house nestled in nature
A garden full of a couple’s caring touch
The scent of grass and flower beds that never quite bloomed
Where a husky once stood guard now only radio frequencies flow
The alarm clock in the chicken coop that no longer wakes the morning
The rabbits that liked the grass I fed them
and the two countryside puppies from who knows where
might they again be traveling somewhere?
To welcome their youngest, whose return no one can predict
as if to say he’s welcome anytime
countless lights are kept on the ascending hill
telling him to not fear the climb up
Now the smell of duck meat has completely faded
The dining table where countless conversations once took place
is left unused
The bathroom always so clean it's almost laughable
How exhausting it must have been, every day without rest, how much they must have worried
It made me grow
It made me bloom
Mom, dad, I miss home so much
“I swallow it down and tears well up, a sudden rain shower blurs my vision. I endure one day, then one more, hoping that someday I'll reach that place”
(Now This House Ain’t A Home lyrics)
#SEONGHWA #성화