I’M COMING BACK HOME

I’m not going anywhere, you’re not going anywhere.
We’re not going anywhere. A little time
won’t change that. What I saw before
may still hold true, or maybe
it was buried and lost.

Every place you run to,
everywhere you turn, you find pain.
I have to walk across the desert
just to shed this skin. We can only find our way
by touch, in search of some kind of redemption.

(January 26, 2009)