Waiting for you to come home
Last night, I tried but I couldn’t sleep My mind danced, eyes twitched My belly rumbled, just as the doorbell rings I stand, sit and rise again Please Lord, no soldiers today It’s been a year of cold waiting Through lonely winter nights And pillows of tears Silent rhythms of body aging Aging from the lack of you here Do come home When the evil war passes over Its sweet ending brings us together Let the promise of forever stay stronger Sipping sweet scents into my life As I stand to open my home’s door Let it be no soldier of death I look through my door’s hole A glimpse of dread Sturdy fellow on the other side peeps back A braveness takes over I open with peace He opens his lips He bravely shatters my soul Today is the end He spills tales of death like it’s fame Another one of us has fallen today , he says Fallen or died? For justice or political ego? His death holds no gallant victory for m