Stones and postcards

We collect souvenirs

of the places we visit

Stones and postcards

fill up our suitcases

only to give them away

or to collect dust

in a box,

in a basement

of a place we call home.

Every piece tells a story

of the people

the nights,

the words

and the feelings.

We couldn’t take those memories

Only to lock them away

in a box,

in a basement

They live on 

in a place we call home.

Ourselves.

✴

Princes’ Islands

11th September 2022