The House Where You Were Born - A Hope For Home

It’s like coming back to the house where you were born-

Photographs in the hall from years before

The window in your brother’s room where morning sun would speak to you

Is covered up with years of dust- it shines no light, it gives no view

The shades are drawn, eyes are turned from sky above

You’ve found yourself far from that place you used to love

So you paint the walls familiar shades

But the room itself remains unchanged

And as you look deep within, you gain the courage to begin:

«I used to be such a burning inception, when days ahead seemed as brilliant as

morning’s light.

Spent my life waiting for the rising sun but the dawn has come

and left me here to find- while I don’t recognize who I’ve become,

I’ve grown much farther from the person I once was.

So, like the glare out

from evening’s glow, I’ll close my eyes and let this go.»