Coming Home
Poetry about reunions, return dates, preparing a home, and the fragile hope attached to the words coming home.
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After too much distance and waiting, home becomes a brother holding his baby sister and a mother trying not to cry behind the camera.
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After months of empty rooms and waiting, ordinary chaos becomes holy when every child she can hold is finally sleeping under one roof.
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She scrubs, folds, and prepares every room as though order could bargain with the universe for the footsteps she is waiting to hear.
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Laundry, made beds, stocked cupboards, and careful little chores become a countdown to the sound of her boys coming home.
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The boys are coming home, but relief arrives carrying supervision, weekends away, and the knowledge that another fight may still be waiting.
