Yaki, I have become mesmerized in this comforting sadness, how you portray such esquisite images with those emotions of yours.

The repetition of your country, shows your love for home, but your longing for something further away to grasp.

What beautiful images you portrayed here, and the flow was smooth, like cascading waters, gentle and calm but sad at the same time

My only critique/suggestion:

I can't grow to be like you,
you seem to have no problem
being surrounded by ocean

^^"being surrounded by the ocean"

Love always xxx

This is such a beautiful imagery and the love for your country shines through, very well-done xoxo

I had it my mind to write something really long here...I was planning on breaking it down stanza by stanza to let you know my thoughts but....I decided not to. I left my homeland many years ago and I think you may need to do the same...perhaps you will then decide your Aruba is for you or...maybe, like me, you will continue to explore in the hope of finding a better place.

Regardless....this was a beautiful write Yaks...

I can't grow to be like you,
you seem to have no problem
being surrounded by ocean

^^^ T_T

Pulled at my heart strings. Gorgeous.

Will try to write more later.

I promised myself to stop dropping in, for I might just stand right there, speechless. Stumbling with your flawless poetry that never failed to take my breath away, or to leave me all in awe, wandering for the right words. And I thought I was the queen of patriotic poetry in here? Huh, who am I fooling? You, with your first poem about your homeland, hit me to the core and made me tearful...like literally tearful. How I wish I could walk through the chambers of your brain, to kiss away your pain and cradle your thoughts. How I wish I could be by you, now. It would truly feel cozy and sweet. Wonderfully written, lovely.