Day 154:Nóstos(Nostalgia)

The Greek word for nostalgia consists of the primary root (Nóstos) which mean homecoming. As one of my friend goes back to Greece today, I though at least the late posting of today can be about this nostalgia that he gets to experience after 17 years. Though much has probably changed in that time frame, there are reasons why the memories you create now will remind you of remnants of a distant past. In between all the turmoil and the happenings of the day the landscape of our mind find solace in some places that are revisited and is rekindled in a new spirit. We are travelers in our own ways, some like the excitement of getting lost in new places and some in finding familiar roads and pathways that they traversed. I simply hope you get to carry back nostalgia as you wished.

Nóstos(Nostalgia) 
At the start of it all and with the old camera reels
No memory cards could replace your own memories
Some places have but changed in time
And some not even a single bit, they have simply survived

We walk the streets as though nothing has changed
And wish that some things have not been too rearranged
The warm places, the places that you call home
And some are just the ones where you belong.

You are held up in between a traveler's guide
Some streets you roam by intuition on your side
And take notes in travel diaries and photographs
Reminding you of time so changed among the ones you had

Goodbye/αντίο what ever it may be
I hope you carry back nostalgia in between your memories
Too many years may have come and gone
And some things are lost, even among the familiar ones.