Homecoming -

Stars… before my eyes

They still accord within me what I thought had died

Below me sleeps a planet that I called home for years

It paves from view

I made my tears of joy

Love

I see my love

Her song of freedom touches me and I return her call

Her starred-ride (?) beauty tells a tale of courage and of tears

I’m coming home again from years alone

But why this fear inside of me of what I’ll see and say

The past three years I live each moment for this day

The call so strong it wakes me from my sleep and makes me cry

I must return to space again before too long or die

Home

I have come home

The faces here are different while the same as long before

The power swells beneath me as the years all fall away

And for moments there is nothing we can say

And stars… before my eyes

A single more year earthbound and I’m sure I would have died

I’ll call no planet home again for that would be a lie

We’ll sail our sea eternally---my starred-ride (?) love and I