When you go back 

Don't count the fingers you

Lost getting here 

Or the limbs your neighbours lost 

Don't let the memories you caged 

Come out to play don't 

Unfold the crumpled pages

of your passport  don't

Poke your stomach and sigh

Wistfully where it crosses the 

Borders your aunties set for desirability 

Don't carry any lovers in your chest 

Don't 

Don't go back, you can't go back 

Not all of you anyway

-We miss time (not places)/ we miss people (not places)