It is cruel to get lost in my hometown.<\/p>\n
Although I know all the streets and the paths<\/p>\n
Even at nights and without any lights,<\/p>\n
I can find my way with closed eyes.<\/p>\n
Yes, believe it or not. I can also name its ghosts,<\/p>\n
And show you their fathers\u2019 hidden corpse.<\/p>\n
, yet I get lost, but how did I? Why am I lost?<\/p>\n
I am all surrounded by familiar faces.<\/p>\n
They look at me with their warm looks full of expectations.<\/p>\n
They want me to be\u2026<\/p>\n
The woman they failed to be.<\/p>\n
, or the woman they regretted being.<\/p>\n
They want me to have their balanced and unbalanced life.<\/p>\n
Although I dreamed of no life.<\/p>\n
They want me to fit in their world.<\/p>\n
A miserable world full of unfairness<\/p>\n
Under what they call sacrifices.<\/p>\n
In my hometown streets, I saw\u2026<\/p>\n
Miserable children who lost the faith,<\/p>\n
and replaced their toys with spades.<\/p>\n
I saw cruelty in the eyes of the old.<\/p>\n
Everything looked unbelievably odd.<\/p>\n
My hometown was not as any other town.<\/p>\n
It was black when it was exposed to be white.<\/p>\n
As an ugly Snow white.<\/p>\n
Its contradictions will always make you wonder.<\/p>\n
My dear hometown,<\/p>\n
Although I know my way,<\/p>\n
between your paradoxes I get lost.<\/p>\n
but how did I? Why am I lost?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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