Hiraeth

This evening one of the articles

 on the B.B.C.'s magazine programe

 "The One Show" 

included a few clips from the South Wales valleys.

Unexpectedly hearing the accents of my home valleys,

I found myself in unbidden tears 
and wondered why.

 Even after forty years living 

away from my place of birth,

with good friends and sweet kindness

from many parts of the world,

it is these voices that pull at my heart.

  The land itself,
above the terraced towns

 as you can see

 is beautiful;

but it is the people,

ah, the people
 who are my home.

Of course they are not perfect,

How could I have had a place among them if they were?

When all is said and done though,

it is from them I first learned to love.

And to forgive.

Blessings

P.S.   Hiraeth is the Welsh for homesickness

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