Welcoming my favorite month with a poem. Happy October! Hope you enjoy!
Home
There is a light in her window.
A hopeful flicker,
or is it only melting wax?
Minutes dripping to nothing?
A glimpse of distant shores,
left you yearning for the foreign and the wild.
She is neither of those things.
She is safe, she is home.
Or she was.
Before dreams carried you away.
You once looked for the light in her window.
Returning from a storm-tossed sea,
with tales of treasures and paradise.
She would listen with twinkling eyes,
content to imagine
what lies beyond the gloomy harbor.
But she would never leave.
You broke free from repetition,
and your hungry eyes devoured alien lands.
You’d go farther, for longer,
even when her arms told you not to go.
But when you offered her your hand,
her feet were rooted to the dock.
She saw her hopes snuffed out,
when you boarded that last ship.
Now it seems as though
the light that guides you home
is not enough to make you stay.
She still lights the candle every night.
Though you have long since left.
I wonder if you can see the ashes,
from your far too distant world.
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