A poem for coming home to yourself.
Home
Some of us name ourselves the
restless ones
We crave our restlessness the way we do our lovers
Intense, and pearlescent
We nurture the search, knowing that
ecstasy
is found in the journey, and not in the arrival
Until
that oceanic moment when home finds us, startled,
caught in mid-crest—
The journey was within, you see
Turns out there was no voyage, no expedition to mount
Home was the current we were riding all along
Every wave who individuates
and sinks back into the sea
knows this
Though we kept crashing against it, we were never seeking the shore
We belong to the place we are made,
the place of deepest love
that fathomless state of grace that is our seabed
A place to rest
after the tumbling is
done.
© Calee Lucht 2016