Today’s NaPoWriMo prompt is to write a hay(na)ku, a riff on the haiku created by the poet Eileen Tabios . A hay(na)ku consists of a three-line stanza, where the first line has one word, the second line has two words, and the third line has three words. My mind went to self isolation as a metaphor for exile: in both cases we have memories of happier times but are restricted in the present to what we remember, not what we can experience. Here goes:
\\\* Cherish the things you still remember
Fight the inclination to forget, to
lose the scent of simple things,
the delight of being held close,
the joy of night time dancing.
this is exile remembering, hoping, (maybe) returning.