Home, tomorrow by Ruhi Lee

“This lyric essay was inspired by the idea of re-imagining home. It found it’s form as I asked myself over and over again, “What is home, really?” and “Why?”

My first response was the most obvious, that is, the structure in which I live. I then considered the larger context of home. Whenever I’ve travelled overseas, I’ve longed to return home to Australia. But then, whenever I’ve visited my motherland, India, I’ve felt a visceral sense of belonging in the country I was born in. Both experiences have been different and yet both have fallen short of offering me and other people around me a real sense of safety and well being, like one would expect of a home.

Ultimately, I concluded that for me, home is not static as we live in a rapidly changing world. I can only hope that over time, it will morph to the benefit of our exploited environment and those who have been displaced by unfettered capitalism, colonialism and violence.”