No Place Like Home

I have tried, for love, to live in other places,
Revelled in beauty and bliss,
Endured loneliness and illness in excess,
and then I've come back home.

The ocean greets me like a mother.
I shed tears one on the other.
My boat is that sweet chariot for crossing over.
The great expanse opens from here.

Sometimes mirror calm, sometimes raging
always relaxing back into itself before long
the ocean is my home, my song.
Yes, let freedom ring.

Yes, freedom even from home in the end
as home becomes endless horizon.

24 October 2022
Texas Jim
Prospect, Nova Scotia
www.granitecoast.ca