Welcome home From the porch you could see As you sit next to me And the jittery dog One side of the sky with clouds waterlogged The other with cold beams of Light Spilling through from a great height Energy through the air Going to and coming from nowhere
Welcome home To this great valley Where the wind goes through your hair Like familiar fingers Tensing along your scalp Where the slopes are steep To keep you from leaving Where the bones of your past Hold the ground up from falling to the Earth's core Where the winds of your future Feel like chilly ghosts Sapping you of heat Where the quietness of your current self Echoes through the people you love most
I see you lying on the grass Naked and vulnerable Let me lay my hand upon you To cover you from this storm Shake no more in this treeless valley Between the insurmountable slopes