i will never go back home

i will never go back

i will never go back to where i took my first steps

i will never go back to the house with carpet floors

i will never go back to hating my big brother

i will never go back to not knowing what’s wrong

i will never go back to the homely chorus of chinese

i will never go back to fearing only the dark

i will never go back to dreading preschool in the morning

i will never go back to whence the floodwaters came

in my dreams i am there

stagnancy for the sake of memory

we say home is where the heart is

i left my heart in southampton