This Changed Place

Here.

I wonder if and I wonder why. I do not know and I cannot say. All the days fall around us as we stand waiting for our own world to begin once again. We used to move though this world so easily as though we belonged here and it was our home.

Now we come as strangers, held captive in another land for a long time. Everything now feels new and strange, somehow changed. This world belongs to us no more. We see it in the places. We see it in the faces that surround us. We left this land long ago to travel to new places. Now we have returned and it is no longer a familiar place to us. We do not know this new language or the customs of this changed place.

We have forgotten how to act naturally in such a place and stand awkwardly on the edges of things, uncertain.