I long for home

For the dry heat

For the harmattan

And the red soil

But here I stand

Day after day

Year after year

Through seasons

The cold snow

Slowing my bronze blood

Under florescent lights

When will I return?

To my home

Where the sun is warm,

And shines brighter at noon

Where the faces mirror mine

Glistening under golden sun

To my fathers in corals of red

And my mothers in ivory

Dancing to the beat of the drums

That would welcome

The lost

The exiled

The homesick

Author’s Biography

Chukwuebuka is a Nigerian poet whose work explores memory, grief, faith, and the quiet tensions that shape ordinary lives. His poetry is interested in the spaces between mortality and meaning, drawing on mythology, history, and personal experience to examine what remains after loss.