Heading Home

Maybe it was a long road
Or a short road
That took a long while
To wander down
Down along the blue-green Pines
& the trumpet vines
With dusty shoes
& shadow lines
I heard you’re heading back home now…
I heard you’re heading back home
Against a smoky dawn
With a soldier’s song
Steadily holding out & holding on
Suddenly I remember when
You shook your head
& storm clouds gathered
Around your bed
Was it sunset or sunrise?
Was it in the sky above
Or in your eyes
That I saw
The traces of love?
I heard you’re heading back home now…
I heard you’re heading back home
The crossing down
Like an acrobat of this & that
A circus wire, the perfect act
Falling endlessly
Unworldly, like the Day Lilly
Moving slowly
Under the cover of
The mountain trees
Trains & bells & hurricanes
& numbers lined up
In dirty lanes
Driving down the interstate
I heard you’re heading back home now…
I heard you’re heading back home
Guitar strings & ammunition
Metals, meadows & intuition
Passing quietly
Like a season
Dancing like a little boy
& an old man
Side by side
Hand in hand
I heard you’re heading back home now…
I heard you’re heading back home