home

Où

When you find your place
It’s like hope is accepted
Inside of you the machine
Is finally running smoothly
Closer to the equivalent
Of being found
Further from lost
And the dogs that
Are intimidating you
Are playful and welcome
You’re at ground level
Closer to lions and the
Cubs are your companions
And you feel safe in their
Keep and affection
For the unsettled feeling
That comprises your surety
Is the comfort that makes
You feel protected and replete
It is the natch of your
Existence to find a way
To embrace what is truly
There for you to embrace
Like a second part of you
That understands how you feel
More than just the flesh of
Another but an untouchable ether
Existence that can hear and
Receive you in a way that
Affirms your greatness
Defines your worthiness
Completes your whole

Delivery

I am here to deliver your child
I had asked the man will you receive him?
And he said no
So I checked his papers
Dug deep into the contents
Of the computer mainframe
To see what I could find
We shouldn’t leave this child with him
If he isn’t wanted
We’ll find a better home for him

I began to look through the store
For a way to frame this picture
There were no mattes
I looked up and down
But nothing could be found
Lots of parts and pieces but
It felt like they were all for nothing
I found someone
Who gave me a long explanation
For why we didn’t have
The basic concepts
To fulfill small needs
She was nice
But none of it made sense

A woman stepped forward
To explain the best parts of
What was missing and the
Construction that was going on
That caused their store to have less
Than other stores for sale
Approval took forever
But her kindness was
Indeed appreciated
I thought about her generosity
As I continued to work
To find a home for
This displaced child

A cat wandered into the back door
It didn’t want to be held by anyone
But it came to me
It gently bit down on my hand
An older couple entered; they called it bear
Grey cat I hold you like
A mother would at the
Back of your neck
You are calmed
You are soothed
You are home now

Safe

Everything is temporary
Just because you’re pretty
Don’t mean nothin’
They’ll take your freedom
Snatch your security
Throw you to the wolves

Red house true dreams
Minuscule problems
Everything melts away
In ribbons of protection
Tied around the space
Just to remind you
That you are safe and sound
In a place where you
Never knew if you were before

No looking over your back
Self expression is allowed

You can rest your head here
In my lap and know that
No one can hurt you now
No one can hurt you now
No one can hurt you now

My love is forever

Let the Bird

That’s enough for now
Let the bird return home
All the i’s have been dotted
All the t’s have been crossed
All the calls have been made
And the fridge is full
Let the bird fly back home
Return to the nest
After all the rest has been done
No bottles left to swig
No attorneys left to bridge
All the expectations have been
Settled now we’re through
Satisfied the bird still flies
And finds a way back home
Settled once here across the world
Off to Munich and back we go
Let the bird return home
To enjoy the fruits
Frozen berries fresh alike
Every kind we are all so
Fulfilled to know the heart’s
No longer lonely
When it returns home to itself
No more waiting to be told
And what the tree shall soon behold
All the riches of the traveling
Weary wings to rest again
That’s enough for now
Let the bird return home

Hello

It’s not your fault I didn’t
Turn out the way
That you had hoped
You gave birth to me
Sometimes that’s just
The way the story goes
You don’t have to
Want to be close to me
You don’t have to want
To own any part of me
There doesn’t have to
Be any kind of us
All the parts of me
That are insouciantly
Annoying you can fade
All the parts of me
You wished were
Different in some way
Can go away
My soul cries only
Because we also
Share the same skin
The same skin although
We are of broken kin
The same bones although
We are of broken home
The same blood although
We are of broken love
It’s not your fault I didn’t
Turn out the way
That you had hoped
You planted your seed
In a soil that bleeds
Of radiant love
I am at home in myself
Although I have
No home to speak of

If I stayed in that house
If I lived in that town
I would still be alone
A winter of snow and stone
Frozen to the bone
Sadness wrapped around my mind
Nothing left but the time
Wasting away
In this broken heart of mine

I forgot how to shine
Forgot that the sun was even alive
And now I’m here with you
So happy I could be here to
Tell this story to sing
Knowing with so many things
In my life all going wrong
Something is finally going right

Why do I love this so much
I don’t know why I do
Why do I love you so much
I don’t know I just do

No more goodbyes
Always understanding why
This is where you belong
With all of the loss and harm
All the fights that you’ve fought
All of the pain that you’ve been through
Has brought you to me
So let down your walls
Open up to it all

Dry your tears
Calm your fears
Let the meltdown fade away
Into the flames of eternal forgiveness
All your confusion erased
And replaced with a kiss
My love is relentlessly
Breathing for the both of us

Why do I love this so much
I don’t know I just do
Why do I love you so much
I don’t know I just do

Knowing that tonight
We have a life worth living
And you make it a better place for me
Can I make it a better place for you
To start receiving
The love that you deserve
Do you have the nerve
To look me in the eye
And call this home

Why do I love this so much
I don’t know I just do
Why do I love you so much

Call this home
Call us home