Your Zugunruhe

 

You said to me about

Leaving your sacred place:

It's my zugunruhe*:

It's been a Jug,

since I've rested in this oasis,

I want out now.

It is my zugunruhe,

Like the restlessness,

Of the migratory birds,

Like the restlessness

Of my soul.

The season is ripe now.

*Zugunruhe: (German: zug = migration, unruhe = restlessness) is the innate, internal agitation that builds up in migratory birds (and even some insects, fish, and mammals) when their internal clocks sense it’s time to move.