Reassessment...

SOJOURN

Let me be a guest
In your inn
For these few hours.
But do not beg me,
I beg you,
To spend the night…

Do not put me to test.
It is not yet
The time to stop,
The season to stay,
To carry over these dreams
Into another stale day…

I still need
To sense my way,
To salvage
All that I have left
In dense disarray…

Maybe I will return
Some distant day,
No more the prodigal,
Never again to stray…

Maybe you will remain,
A wistful figure,
Waiting at the window,
So much to say…
And even more eager
To listen
To
My silence


When I finally come back
To you,
To home,
To rest.