Homecoming

Direct your eye inward, and you'll find / A thousand regions in your mind / Yet undiscovered. Travel them, and be / Expert in home-cosmography - Thoreau

Night street scene in Berlin

Leipziger Strasse, Lesser Ury

German Impressionist Painter (1861-1931)

come home

before the street lamps turn blue

before the dawn summons you

come home

before frost blankets the ground

before silence makes a sound

come home

before time laments

before love ferments

come home now

it doesn't matter how

just come home

so i'm no longer alone

sitting naked with my phone

come home

before your feet turn to clay

whilst you still know the way

come home

before pride turns to shame

before father leans out the window and calls you by name

come home

before now turns into forever

better late than never

Author's Note

"But the place which you have selected for your camp, though never so rough and grim, begins at once to have its attractions, and becomes a very centre of civilization to you: "Home is home, be it never so homely." - Thoreau