Home by Bokani Mbulai
All I see are dusty clouds and hazy blurs of what was what we called home. It was beautiful, wonderful, and magnificent- only these handful of words can describe our home but cannot describe it to the fullest. I look beside me and I see him; my brother, sitting there, crying, mourning what we called home. Home is not just a place but a feeling. A feeling that is indescribable that words can try to contain, but just like birds in a cage, these words need to be set free and therefore are portrayed with images. These images cannot be painted, drawn or sculpted. Man and man-made objects cannot compare to this beauty but rather destroy and take the image and distort it. Home is a feeling of warmth, like the sun radiating its rays on a summer’s day on your skin, it’s a feeling of comfort that no bed can provide, it’s a feeling of serenity- no car can take you to, but just as home is not an object it can be taken away. Home was stripped out of my arms and still is lo...