Homing
©2012 Susan Noyes Anderson
Photo by Sixties Photography on Unsplash
Follow the bright lights home, my son.
When all is said, when all is done,
their glow still brings you back to me
in person and in memory.
Homing transcends the reach of words,
thrums sweet in souls of migrant birds,
grants every man the gift of wings,
and offers all the peace it brings.
It matters not where time has flown.
For you are loved, and you are known.
So sail home on a southern breeze.
Belonging is like air. It frees.
image by Alex Wigan on Unsplash
image by Alex Wigan on Unsplash∞§∞
“The family is one of nature’s masterpieces.”
– George Santayana
“Out of the dreariness into its cheeriness, come we in weariness, home.”
– Steven Chalmers
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Tags: art, family, home, love, mothers, peace, sons
Susan Noyes Anderson
Susan Noyes Anderson is the author of At the End of Your Rope, There’s Hope, Deseret Book, ©1997; Awaken Your Spiritual Power: The Fairy Godmother Isn’t Coming!, Karisma Press, ©1999; and His Children (poetry only, photos are by Anita Schiller), Vantage Point Press, ©2003.