Home In My Mind

The home in my mind
is a house of fidelity
of warming affairs
of unchanging solidity

the compendium
of all of those things
that have meaning
a place of gatherings

and easy learnings
of eager departures
joyful returnings.
It is where one can

retreat when evils gather
when clouds of
disillusionment darken
when despair flenses the soul.

I am there in the mornings
of each day’s rebirth
naked and naïve
a sincere believer ceded

into simplicity of thought
indeed aware
it may restrain me from
otherworld freedoms;

but I don’t really care.
© I.D. Carswell