“Homesick in London” Ahdaf Soueif, Egypt (1950-)

Rain streaks the glass —

it is not Cairo’s sun.

I drink tea,

but it tastes of absence.

I am always walking home,

but the road bends away.

From A Poem A Day: Middle East & North Africa

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