an exile come home

I hesitate to write
these lines of your visits
waking me here
asleep in my chair
coffee cold
in my cup
and you trudging
those 5000 miles
over land an ocean
to sit once more
by my side
foretelling what awaits
in a future
void of time
where loneliness fades
an exile
come home

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