When You Get Home

V.

Disengage. 

For now, cars pass beyond. 

A child and his friend shout in the distance. 

The birds make their chatter:

the sounds of a late afternoon in summer. 

When You Get Home

IV.

Know contentment:

it is not the same thing as happiness

or ease. 

Part of it is knowing

that you are where you should be. 

When You Get Home

III.

Rest. 

Let the people on the highway rush;

it's their turn. 

(Some people spend their entire lives on the highway.)

When You Get Home

II.
Drowse.
Love and laughter
and noise will come soon.
Now is the in-between time.
Now there is no one else here.

When You Get Home

I.

Open the doors;
rain will come soon.
And warm winds will push hazy notions
like the child changes the course
of a toy boat in a stream.
Breathe deep.