Going Home

Long we have imagined being done

(not even comprehensively, but with a phase)

Long we have imagined going home.

But there’s a truth about the process

we didn’t know to picture —

how we don’t go back the way we’ve come

We have been honed, we have been humbled,

and the things we’ve learned

are more about perspective points than anything —

not that we know more things

but that our lenses

have somehow shifted everything we see

And being done — I now don’t know

what that would look like,

and going home — I’m not sure

where that is,

but in the learning and the leaning

I can say

I’m more myself than I have ever been.

©Wendy Mulhern

November 4, 2019