We Have Come Home By Lenrie Peter

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We Have Come Home

By 

Lenrie Peter 

We have come home 

From the bloodless wars

With sunken hearts

Our boots full of pride- 

From the true massacre of the soul

When we have asked

"What does it cost 

To be loved and left alone'

We have come home 

Bringing the pledge

Which is written in rainbow colours

Across the sky-for burial 

But it is not the time

To lay wreaths

For yesterday's crimes. 

Night threatens

Time dissolves

And there is no acquaintance

With tomorrow

The gurgling drums 

Echo the stars

The forest howls

And between the trees

The dark sun appears,

We have come home 

When the dawn falters 

Singing songs of other lands

The death march 

Violating our ears 

Knowing all our loves and tears

Determined by the spinning coin

We have come home

To the green foothills

To drink from the cup

Of warm and mellow birdsong 

To the hot beaches

Where the boats go out to sea 

Threshing the ocean's harvest

And the hovering, plunging

Gliding gulls shower kisses on the waves

We have come home

Where through the lightning flash

And thundering rain

The famine the drought,

The sudden spirit

Lingers on the road 

Supporting the tortured remnants of the flesh

That spirit which asks no favour 

of the world 

But to have dignity.