sorenbarrett

Homeless

Are we not all homeless on this tellurian journey?

Battling through this borrowed land

all abodes nothing more than a rented gurney

a fleeting respite before buried in time\'s sand

 

Prior to taking up this corporal mound of clay

to embark upon our forward trudgings

ask: Do we not leave behind, on our way,

our ephemeral Bedouin lodgings?

 

Behind us, dwellings, friends, and relatives, strewn

like discarded remnants of the past

A vagrant yes! Yet, nature provides us a boon

an edifice that all this life will last

 

A structured habitat so grand,

a mortal harbor, we will only leave behind

on this passage when we depart this land

to a future, of which we are sand-blind