Nostalgia

On explaining the Word to my Enlglish as a Second Language Students)

When a word
becomes so real,

you feel it,
know how it smells, tastes

if it is warm or cold
you own it.

Nostalgia,
a longing, bittersweet

for grandmother's bread,
for lavender scented sheets

for a sleeping baby's head
warm on your shoulder,

an ache for a long lost home,
an absent love

a world that exists
in an enchanted snow globe

and no amount of shaking
will ever bring it back.