By Nila Kanmani

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What is the difference between a house and a home?

Did you get home safe?
Why don’t you go rest at home?
Is anybody home?
All these questions
Yet I don’t know the meaning of home 
How can I when the house I live in never felt like home
When nobody feels like home
When my own body is not a home for my soul
But a cage that traps it in this Earth
I think that is why people crave humans,
To hope that if they meet enough people they can find someone who they can call home 
Maybe that is what marriage is about 
To have a home till you die, regardless of the conditions. Till death do us apart, right?
But, I think your first home should be found within before you seek it out in someone or something 
To find your body as a bed for your soul to rest and not as cage to imprison it.
And you know, I think I found home in myself
For the first time 
My soul is content with staying in my body

Process

I wrote this piece to people out there who never had a home or felt at home with themselves that they’re not alone- that it can get better. I firmly believe that everyone should always try their best to learn, love, and improve themselves because I believe we’re on this Earth to find ourselves and leave the world a better place. So this piece is meant to speak to the heart to make people realize and want to love themselves.