Remember

Breathe in

Can you feel it?

Another chance

Like butterflies opening their wings

After the struggle

Like

Sunlight on dust floors

Illumination

A child free to run

A song relentlessly sung

A death dying to be done

Can you feel it?

Waking up and letting go

Pure winter snow

Melting

Life peaking 

Out from under its covers

A sigh

Warmth on your tongue

Reminding you

There's life left to be won

Beauty

Rising up from ash heaps and deadwood

Can you feel it?

Remember...

Eden's never been that far

But closed

We can't get in

Refugees left homeless 

By knowledge of

Evil

Cries of agony

Lost innocence

Babies falling into dust

Wounded

"Do Not Enter"

We scream

We ache

We long for home

Can you feel it?

We wander like Cain

Death at our heals

Never to heal

We reel...

Wait

A man

Standing there

Stillness

A voice like cool breezes

On sweat stained faces

"Follow me"

We don't know why

But we follow

His eyes are kind

They remind us of something

Somewhere

We once knew

A taste of home is on our tongues

We follow

Ancient paths

Long covered over

Are revealed

Curtains 

Long drawn

Are pulled back

Sunlight on dust floors

Breath blown on old memories

Long forgotten

Long lost

Long hidden

We remember...

Floods of dreams now gone

Return

Slow steps through attic halls

Uncovering mysteries

We remember

A picture

A song

A name

The man...

He smiles...

We fall on hands and knees

Old things falling from shoulders

Kind hands

On tired backs

A lullaby

Kisses on dusty foreheads

Weak limbs give in

Carried in strong arms

We rest...

A whisper

"Welcome home"

We remember...