Anthony Hanible

Homeless Heartless

Home is where the heart is

So I have nowhere left to stand

No doorway knows my name

No room remembers my breath

I walk the world unclaimed

A wanderer carved from frost

Carrying only the echo

Of a pulse I misplaced

Home is where the heart is

But mine slipped from my ribs

Like a bird fleeing winter

Leaving me

Roofless

Rootless

A body without a compass

Still I search the dark

Not for shelter

Not for warmth

But for the faintest thrum

That might lead me back

To something like living

Home is where the heart is

And I am learning slowly

To build one

From the ashes

Of what I lost