We remember that family is not just those of blood. But also those we choose to love. - Nikita Gill
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We remember that family is not just those of blood. But also those we choose to love.
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Nikita Gill
Nikita Gill (born 20 June 1987) is a British-Indian poet, playwright, writer and illustrator based in south England. She has written and curated eight volumes of poetry. Gill uses social media to engage her audience and she has over 650,000 followers on Instagram, one of the most popular poets on the platform.
There is still love to be found here. It just needs someone to whisper it back to life. This is spell work. It is time-consuming, full of errors . . . . . . but it is not impossible.
Softer memories once lived there. Where there is now burning. Where there is now blood.
That was where childhood held you. Instead there is a forgetting. Instead there is a fireflood.
You have never forgotten how home was more than just a language you grew inside your mouth before you said it in a way your tongue bled.
When it lived as a place outside of your body and more than just in your heart and head.
Where you once taught your children how to speak and walk and sang them lullabies till they fell asleep in their beds.
How it has become a legend, just a holy story you pass from praying hands to praying hands.
Where once you built hallowed walls there is now simply scorched earth and bloodied sands.
A memory of the scared land that it once was before your whole world was set completely to flames
How your heart breaks everyday because home, home no longer remembers how to say your name.
Home was your refuge, and I wish they would see. because after cruelly taking it from you, they call you refugee.
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