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Nila Kanmani
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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

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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.

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Nila Kanmani

Nila Kanmani is a person who loves romance and harsh truths of life.

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