6th January
‘Saudade’
A yearning
for childhood.
As days merge
Into one another.
No concept of
passing time.
Days are of
no consequence.
Loved in a way
that will never
come again.
I watch my son.
So achingly sweet
As history
repeats itself,
And my childhood
becomes his.
‘Saudade’ is a Galician Portuguese word with no direct translation into English. It’s a deep emotional state of nostalgic longing for an absent something that one loves. It often carries a repressed knowledge that the object of longing will never return.
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