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SOLICITUDE

solicitude
n. 1. care or concern for someone or something

the art of coming home
is one I never mastered
but you return
day after day

I have waited for many
and most didn’t come
I have been waited for
and still I went away

you have been running all your life
but in front of this word you stop
the art of coming home
is one I never mastered
you, however, you return
day after day, you return

does it mean that you care?
or does it mean that I do?

- From A Poetry Collection, Claude Bérubé