A requiem
for all those men
who died last night
in the half light of a half life
with a suitcase beside a dead face
or a rucksack strapped to a lifeless back.

A requiem for the dreams of men
where the truth is carried home to them
in the home they do not call their own
on the floors of stone where the cold seeps through into the bone
and the ache of both the heart and what should be the home
is killed within the stricken moan.

A requiem
for when the night takes pain away
for another day.

And a hymn for him or her
for those who dared to take a leap outside the comfort zone.
and now to head off
to a home which will be home.

A requiem in memoriam
Ad infinitum.