So Close, yet So Far

Name: Devo Nabawi

IG Handle: @devonabawi

I was born here, just like them. I was raised the same way as them. This is the place I’d always lived. This is the place I’d always loved. From the mountains to the plains, from the apples to the people. I’d loved this place so much that I’d tried to understand it. I’d loved this place so much that I’d put my all-out expectations in it. 

Until, I’ve lived too long to learn too much. This place had created the very people who would destroy it. From the land they’d walked, to the sea they’d sailed. From the land they’d once lived, to the unknown land they’d discovered. Their parents told them, “This place is meant to be conquered”. Now, I become the enemy of those who I once called “brothers”. Now, I become the enemy of this place, because I love her.