Welcome Home

Benjamin Cooper

1 Sleep don't visit, so I choke on sun
2 And the days blur into one
3 And the backs of my eyes hum with things I've never done
4 Sheets are swaying from an old clothesline
5 Like a row of captured ghosts over old dead grass
6 Was never much but we've made the most

7 Welcome home

8 Ships are launching from my chest
9 Some have names but most do not
10 If you find one, please let me know what piece I've lost
11 Peel the scars from off my back
12 I don't need them anymore
13 You can throw them out or keep them in your mason jars

14 I've come home

15 All my nightmares escaped my head
16 Bar the door, please don't let them in
17 You were never supposed to leave
18 Now my head's splitting at the seams
19 And I don't know if I can

20 Here, beneath my lungs, I feel your thumbs press into my skin again