I don not want to go home
I don't want to belong
I don't need to be rooted
I don't like to own.
I wish to go there
where there's no plumbing or fixing the bulb
I need not worry about the peeling off
It's not mine.
I can let the vine tree grow and
creep out from the crevices
I need not cement it up
The gray painted walls will not echo any familiar story
The ceiling can't tempt for death
The mysterious cobweb below the staircase
can stay with the bluish spider
The pale ugly square mark on the wall
of that old painting may keep murmuring old history
I can keep making love signs with my finger
on the dust layer of the writing table
Nothing needs to be familiar
No one needs be known
I don't want to go home
I don't want to belong.
There's an uncanny freedom, a 'Mukti'
in
uprootedness
in
being unsettled.