Home

I'm looking for home
A solid foundation
I'm looking for home
A birth of a nation
I'm looking for home
A place I cannot flee
I'm looking for home
Something that is a part of me
I'm looking for home
I am just a wonderer
I'm looking for home
I feel like it is further
I'm looking for home
Can you guide me?
I'm looking for home
A place that I can be
I'm looking for home
Where the rules do not apply
I'm looking for home
A place where I can fly
I'm looking for home
The land so serene
I'm looking for home
And what it can mean
I'm looking for home
For everything is real
I'm looking for home
A place for a kind meal
I'm looking for home
Does it exist?
I'm looking for home
Where people put down their fist
I'm looking for home
Is it all just a dream?
I'm looking for home
Is this all it may seem?
I'm looking for home
Where mothers and fathers
And brothers and sisters
Stand together
I'm looking for home
A place that cannot deter
Home
Is it down a certain path?
I'm looking for home
It takes me away
From all the pain
And I turn to you
And ask
Where do I belong?
For when I think about it
I just drift along.

Refugee's Return

An old man walks silently among the olive branches

He sweeps his hand across each one,

His open arms embrace the fall and carry their limp figure toward the ground.

The ground feels his weight,

And once more the Earth trembles and weeps

Once more its tears flow rivers

Its mountains shake 

The sky dims its light.

Once more shadows fall among the lifeless roots 

And once more the man walks

Through the dust and sees another

His wrinkles barely noticed,

His brow still firm, his gaze steady.

He looks into the horizon across the land

Once more barren and terrorized

Once more savaged and naked

Once more footprints no longer seen.

He lays his head next to the soil

That grew and embraced the olive tree

Buried beneath emerging souls

A smile draws on his face

Whispers of words echo in the distance, 

The land awakens and welcomes the rhythm

Still alive to feel the touch of its people.