Just as being away from home confronts me with what home is and how I feel about it

getting overly worn out depressive lonely

helps in the greater psyche of me by way of

exposing the fact that I have had the experience of joy pleasure connection peace

as well

the gulf between home and here

between happy and sad

between sure and uncertain

sits on a shelf of human life able to be taken down each day each hour

we choose to make choices about our life

this yin yang is existence there is no way to be alive

otherwise