Home

Home is beyond me.

It took these days of calamity

To understand home

Is not us

Days such as these

Call us into ourselves

Away from the visions

Of glories unknown

Have you ever lost someone

As they stand in front of you?

Like a room shrinking down

To a single square of lino

Build around you timber walls

Hold them together with love

And truth

How big is my shoulder?

How could we know

That you would set us free

These memories taste like salt

And oil