The Return

Drop anchor;
 Lower the sails
 We are here
 Now I am standing here where it all began
 A place once so close to me now a foreign land
 I look up at the sky
 I call, and I cry
 I'm home
 Bones buried beneath
 The earth at my feet
 Remains of a people I gravely seek
 Now I've returned
 Answered the call
 The anthem of a people I no longer know
 As many moons past
 Their faces grew strange
 Afraid of forgetting
 I cling to my name
 On ventures I swore I'd once return home
 Not realizing that home is where I roam
 Under the sky I was birthed
 I walk as a stranger
 My mind's eye imagined
 I'd find my rest in this place
 But my mind could only see
 And never know how I feel now I'm in this place
 Many of us find ourselves forever far away
 Torn from a home where we never drank from the breast
 Never tasted life's milk
 Surrounded by foreign tongues to
 adapt and understand in many far off lands
 If however you find in the dark a starkness steals your heart
 Cherish that bright light
 And be with hope whenever it is in sight
 A face and voice I remember
 Not one resembles her
 Blank stares and empty and empty souls will ne'er fill this hole
 Set course for the open sea
 Far away from this land
 The only place I can call my home
 Is where my two feet stand
 Now
 I want nothing more
 Than to flee these shores
 And leave behind all this
 Return to the ship
 Destined for the open sea
 Let go my past family
 Follow the winds of time
 Create what's truly mine
 Hear this tale of caution
 From a soul destined to roam
 Cling to your closest ones and cherish your home
 Sailing the open sea
 Waves crash
 Lightning flash
 Alone in memory