HOME

So many broken memories,

So many places I never fit.

Too often the guest, rarely the host,

Too many sofa-beds.

So often keeping silent,

So often needing to be agreeable.

Never in my own home,

Never feeling at home.

A stranger within myself,

A stranger in my own skin.

Needing to be alone,

Needing desperately not to be alone.

Where I never wanted to be,

Where I was at home.