It’s quite hard to put into words
seeing your family far away
your cousins growing up—
remembering them as toddlers
(that image forever etched into your mind)
seeing them become kids, young men,
grow taller than those all around
their voices deepen
and you’re left wondering
or wandering, I’m not sure,
maybe it’s my head wandering,
where all those years went.
It’s hard to digest, to feel
your family far away—
and you don’t think about it,
about them
until you see them through a screen
at the other end of the world.