Home in a world filled with war.
The words automatically come tumbling out, the world around us faded into a blur.
Her blue eyes, deep and vibrant with flecks of bright light sparkling and swirling like a pool of water, the glaze of tears making them twinkle even more.
“It’s you, is it really you?” She says, her voice quivering as the tears she was holding in come trickling down her cheek, my thumb wiping them away as I look longing into her eyes. “It is me. I’m sorry I’ve made you wait so long” I say softly back to her. She chokes on her sobs as her arms fling open, wrapping them around my body, clinging onto me, making sure I’m never to leave again. Her gentle cries berried into my chest, my heart aching as I hear her pai