(To a place that never existed except in your mind)
How do you return?
(To a situation- a complicated cascade of circumstances-
that caused you only pain)
Why would you?
Even if you could, even if you should,
Even if by order,
By official decree of the powers that be
Would you not rather choose the alternative?
Me? Certainly!
What arrangement of words, turn of phrase
Or eloquent verbalization
Would make it clear in your ear?
That for some,
Home is not a place where the heart can reside
For some,
Home is more than community
Buildings, family or patriotic pride
For some,
Home is a future reality
For some,
Home must be created currently
For some,
Home is situated solely in the present.
…In the oft-witnessed event
That everything they know to be
Is torn away from them
Suddenly
Leaving behind only a memory…
Of what we hoped would be
What we dreamed could be
How we felt that home should be!
How do you go back home?
You cannot, “home” is temporal
It will not be there for you awaiting your return.
Home too has learned
That it has earned
A right to the constancy of change
You can’t go back
You can’t return
But you can always seek a home
You can always try to feel at home
You can create a home –
An environment that is calming serene
A nesting place, a resting place
A place that’s your very own...
your home
« return.