Entry 2 - Home, by Alex DiDomenico

Home

looking out the window
at the stillness of the water
I think of you landlocked
and how you told me the Great Lakes
are like the ocean 

I want to scoop you up
and take you to my home
where you can see the vast sea
and though our eyes may see
even less than a Great Lake
we know there is more
far beyond the horizon 

and I hope that when
you return to your lakeshore
soft waves washing over
your toes in the sand
you think not of the similarities
with the ocean 

but of disappointment.

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Alex DiDomenico (@alex.didomenico)

I am a recent college graduate working at a documentary production company. I grew up in Rhode Island in a Jamaican-Italian household and currently live in New York City.

This poem was created while looking at the ocean during quarantine.