Home from the sea...

I had not known
until today
how many ways there are
of being
far away.

Wait and see..

Up in the air--
it's where I am.
and where I'll be.
"Wait and see," you say.
I will, dear friend.
You never know
just what you'll find
at journey's end.

God alone...

"The sea hath no king but God alone."

--Dante Gabriel Rossetti in The White Ship

Home...

"Home is the one place in all this world where hearts are sure of each other. It is the place of confidence. It is the place where we tear off that mask of guarded and suspicious coldness which the world forces us to wear in self-defense, and where we pour out the unreserved communications of full and confiding hearts. It is the spot where expressions of tenderness gush out without any sensation of awkwardness and without any dread of ridicule."

--Frederick W. Robertson

You again

Tonight I read the letters that you sent so long ago,
and I remembered how it was with you and me.
I thought of how you were, and how you are.
How far away you seem!
It's not the way it used to be.
It was a dream. But it was real.
Here are your words before me, and I am sure
that they're as true this moment as they were then.
Oh, if only you would just be you again!

Shadowfax...

"O! for a horse with wings!"

--William Shakespeare in Cymbeline

Lightly...

"The reason angels can fly is because they take themselves lightly."

--G. K. Chesterton in Orthodoxy