Solastalgia is a form of homesickness or emotional distress one gets when still at home, but the environment has been altered and feels unfamiliar, in many cases caused by environmental change

                Waves of heat parch your thirsty soil as

                Rain fails to nourish what I thought would

                Always be here. But you have no more to give.

                We use too much, need too much while the

                Appetites of desert and dust beckon you.

                I asked a woman taken from her land how

                She bore the loss of what was once so dear.

                It lives within my heart, she said. Not gone,

                But here. She touched her chest. And yet

                A part of her was sad and broken.

                We have shared endless cadences

                Of seasons as they have come and gone.

                Still spring will rise, birds will sing the air to life as

                I take my broken pieces to a land of hope and water

                Holding within the place you will always be