With you I am home
Never one place
Nevertheless, lovingly inhabited
In your presence
With stronger belonging
Than childhood rooms
Returning to you
Wherever you may be
Like welcoming in an entryway
Placing my key on familiar counters
Walking the halls
Whose sounds I’ve memorized
Knowing the pattern
Of your approaching steps
That creak with the wood
A house I’ve returned to
Too many times, and too familiar
To only exist in one lifetime
Floors and foundation
Deeper than a single love
Undoubtedly reoccurring
With you I am home
The greatest gift of peace
It would suffice, for me
If I can always return here
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