Here-wellness

If home must be a specific place –

a planetary space where sights,

smells, sounds, tastes,

and especially feels are comforting

in their shared historicity –

then we must choose between

being tethered or having both physical

and emotional knots in our gut,

distracting us from wherever

else we find ourselves.

What if we learned to yearn

for a more expansive place –

a movable feast of sensory

and spiritual delicacies traveling

to each time named "now",

each place called "here"?

Dreaming of this place/space

 at night, my bones ache

with its fire upon waking,

my heart bursts

with love's desire.

Will you covenant with me

to covet this mirage

whose density overwhelms

the lesser truth of our youth?

Will you pray for

our homesickness to be

healed by the gift

of here-wellness?

City Lake, Cookeville, TN

© 2015 Todd Jenkins