Tom Wolfe was wrong.
The route may be different, and the vehicle may change,
but home is where your roots lie, and the past is always there
with durable connections, linking us together--
visible, accessible, tangible connections
that show from whence we came.
We rummage through the lives we see
in our trunk of photos,
finding home aplenty:
structures, families, places,
furnished with faces, drawing us back
to bold adventures and sad farewells,
to birthdays and Christmases and summer nights
abloom with promise--details on the map
for the observant traveler.
There is that smile, that tilt of head, the familiar profile--
threads that tie together generations
and lead us forever home.
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