Author’s Note

This piece came from a place of clarity more than frustration. For most of my life, I’ve felt disconnected from the borders around me – not in rebellion, but in recognition. My internal world has always felt wider than the map I was handed.

Global Mind isn’t about rejecting where I’m from. It’s about understanding that home, for me, has never been strictly geographic. It’s something relational. Something resonant. A connection to people and cultures that feel aligned, not assigned.

Sometimes the relief comes not from escaping – but from finally articulating what you’ve known all along.

— Rowan Evans

Global Mind
Poetry by Rowan Evans

A global mind,
trapped inside
imaginary lines.
These borders
feel more like—
shackles and chains.

How do you
push through
when you—
have always felt
chained but unclaimed?

Disconnected
from the world
around you.

I feel like—
I don’t belong
and I never have.

This place isn’t home to me.

It’s emotional
purgatory.
Trapped in waiting.

But you’re drawn to SEA—
so you open your eyes
to witness, the world
in its vast existence.
Stayed curious.
Wanting to see
every corner
of every country.

I want to understand.

Now, I don’t know
what the future holds.
Or where I’ll finally
put down roots,
but I know when I
finally find—home,
it’ll be in the people
around me. More than
my surroundings.
Because sometimes
home isn’t a place.

It’s a people.
A vibe.

A connection
to a culture
that resonates,
in a way
that your own
never did.

If you’re interested in more poetry, you can find it here → [The Library of Ashes]