I was never sure when to get off,
\nFirst i was in Norway and was struck by how strong and caring it was,
\nBut I felt bored, was uncomfortable ans surprised to not be moving,
\nThen I drifted through Canada – never actually stopping, felt too stunned by leaving Norway.
\nMoving on I passed to Israel, there I spoke like friends for months before I actually got off,
\nWhen I did it was difficult as I knew her all too well,
\nShe pushed me on snd vanished behind me and the trip continued on ahead.
\nSome stops were so minor and short they don\u2019t even count, others I yearned for but didn\u2019t hold me back, always compelled to keep on going, if I didn\u2019t stop for long I couldn\u2019t get old.
\nBack in London after much getting around,
\nYet Moscow came and stopped in my life,
\nFelt like Norway again,
\nWas so impressed, excited and yet insecure and harsh,
\nOne day Moscow had enough, and it\u2019s turned cold and was no longer a place to stay,
\nPoland came next in an overlapping stop, rhyming names which everyone forgot.
\nSomething inside me made it hard to stay, anywhere at all, and clung inside my moving place,
\nPushing at the place I was, always thinking of the next place to go, rarely appreciating where I was, so never really being anywhere at all,
\nLater constructing with photos memories which otherwise seem like someone else\u2019s,
\nCursing myself to trudge on,
\nThen taking myself far away, Armenia in America supposedly a permanent place to stay,
\nYet how volatile that was and restricted-depressed I couldn\u2019t really stay,
\nHow it felt at those times how badly my stop fit me, yet nowhere worked so a vagabond I went,
\nI left Armenia afraid, like I almost escaped and then needed to move for some time,
\nLike a cruise ship with a day stop I went surveying traveling a few new bays,
\nTrying at last to reflect inside,
\nLike seeing the world and the outside.
\nI stayed again in America, first fleeting, uncommitted and yet finally trying to remain,
\nI don\u2019t think that being in one place,
\nIs the ultimate goal in this transitory life,
\nYet being forced to run and never slow down,
\nIs exhausting
\nAnd even the colors blur from motion,
\nI learned so much from the places I went,
\nHumbled in awe and learning to remain,
\nKnowing that even this longest journey must end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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