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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