Far off land

A poem I wrote sometime in 2005

The distance of a faraway land calls us
it's something we can't escape

we write it in our books, sing it in our songs
as our souls ache with longing for something we've misplaced

something we can't replace

distant in some far off land there's a story that can't be erased

Isn't it clear we are not home here?

We belong where winter is over & the clouds have just begun to part

When all the world has forgotten the song we all once knew so well

our hearts are still humming the tune ...