Always Going Home

A Life Long Journey

Last night I had that dream again

Once more I had my wings

Aloft I journeyed through the sky

I passed so many things

I was all destination

Focused where I go

Eager for arriving

Never moving slow

And so I labored through the night

My wings received no rest

My gaze a tunnel vision view

My task a trying test

And in that distance in my mind

Beyond the sharp horizon

The endless night ate up the hours

As starlight made scales glisten

For out there somewhere is a place

From sight but not from mind

Where memories yet live and sing

And I can find my kind.

And there we soar, and love and sing

In balmy breezy skies

Is it any wonder then

How vig'rously I fly

A place and time so far away.

Some say it can't be reached

But I shall get there anyhow

Though light and life be breached

And in that distant place

With flesh from spirit sundered

When all that can be taken

Is then gone and wholly plundered

And though mayhap my barren bones

May bleach beneath some sun

I'll know when I have gotten there

And then I shall have won

So forests, seas and mountains

All pass by so far below

But they don't matter anymore

I know where I must go.

Yet I can't show you on a map

It never has been charted

Nor can I cease my journey

No, not now that I've started

For someday I shall get there

I know this in my soul

I'm only marking time here

I've one singular goal.

I'm here, I'm there, I'm wandering

How vastly do I roam

But all I'm doing all the time ?

I'm always going home

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So has your spirit left your flesh

To ride unearthly wing ?

Have you crossed the firmament

To hope and oft to sing ?

And is your heart, your soul, your flesh

Bent on one dream alone.

When you fly I ask you are you

Always Going Home ?

Then take what comfort that you can

You are not on your own

For every night, we each of us.

Are Always Going Home.

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