Coming Home

I was put on this journey

My vessel wailing and whirring

Drifting through invisible

Drifting through the air

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Full grown from a wandering seed

My feet have rooted

They are planted

But tangled in the weeds

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I've progressed through this desert

On roads that are treacherous

My clothes are torn and smell afoul

I haven't the will to wash them

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I'm on the run

Running from that hope of light

In my hand my heart is pounding

I'm hiding from the sun

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Living in the dark

Hiding in the night

My heart is rigid

Gritty like the sand

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I care not for anything

My shadow in the dark

Away from love

In obscure

Running from the promise

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I am restless

I need to keep moving

Dressed in darkness

Dressed in gloom

The walls are caving in

I've reached a dead-end in this maze

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Repeating lost

Repeating lost

I am in a haze

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Are you there?

I cannot see you

The fog is very thick

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No beginning and no end

But I hear you calling

Through the chambers

Through the black hole

It all seems so intense

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I hear a whisper in the breeze

But I refuse to listen

Distant roads are calling

I don't want to answer

My ears are burning

They are aching

Deaf to the voices from the clouds

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There are signs all over me

In unexpected places

But I just keep on going

Past the beauty and the sunshine

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After years of running

My mind is scorched

My legs have worn

I'm in pain

And I am crawling

My throat is parched

I need a drink

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Up ahead

It seems so far

I see a paradise

A river streaming to a lake

I've finally reached the shore

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The air is still

The birds are quiet

I hear the water running

A stream of beauty in my view

I run to see tranquility

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Kneeling by the glistening water

I cup my blistered hands

With this drink I am refreshed

An infant born from death

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The road's been long

The desert dry

But I am home again

The seeds of love were planted here

And now I see them growing