Homecoming

Leave a light on.
Leave it burning in the window.
A fine and proper marker for a place to call my own.

Use a bright one.
Let it burn against the Shadows.
Let it light the path where stands the place that I
Would call my home.

Leave it burning high, please.
Let its light become a beacon.
Reduce the miles and show the way to where I
Would be home.

Just leave it burn now.
Leave it burning ‘til I get there.
I need to know there’s someone at the place
That I call home.

I need to know there’s somewhere there at a place
That I call home.


Stuart Andrew Marshall Tanner