Finding Home

Home is never just a house, or a room, or a person.
It is not just a finale for the destination’s sake.
Home is only discovered in the echoing reverberation
of the wild whisperings of fate.

Home is over the river, it's through the woods,
buried deep in the hooded heart of the mountains grand,
surrounded by 10,000 angry foes
with 10,000 glittering blades in hand.

Its traces are hidden, etched in plain sight,
along the ancient paths in the cover of night.
So small, yet so deliberately there...
waiting to be found by those who seek it still,
whose bravery unassumed causes them to dare.

Some have said that home is ever only found
after the world spits one out.
For it is the heavy heart that carries well the weight of destiny
far beyond the walls of contingency.
Its mantle worn low, doom deep in its bowels,
like the hull of a mighty ship,
through each wave, its keel plows on.

Its canvas unfurled in search of distant shores,
and if the sails be tattered and in ruin, it brandishes oars.
For the search of true belonging
no matter how far it may seem,
will carry the heaviest of hearts along the darkest of seas.

Home is like the end of a journey,
in which our traveling brotherhood
bears up with greatness and the bigness of all that
we have become along the way.
In the same way and with the same intent,
we tend to the weariness of our companions
with a collective heart towards
a real and true rest.

So may we all find, by our seeking,
haven at the end of the fight.
May we all, by our journey,
find the pass in the night.
May we all ride the mountains,
over river and through vale
and question each fork
at the end of the trail.
May we rest and may we revel in hospitable delight,
by the glow of the kingdom of home’s hearth tonight.

Author: R.G. Triplett

Bobby, as his friends call him, is an artist at heart. He is a professional musician and author - not to mention a private chef, daddy of four, and self-proclaimed nerd. He is a church planter, and has served as Lead Pastor and Worship Pastor in several churches throughout his career, having earned his degree from Palm Beach Atlantic University. He is co-owner and founder of Lost Poet Press, and he is also the on-screen narrator for all of the THRIVE cinematic films. He is the author of the Epic of Haven Trilogy, an allegory/fantasy saga that expresses his passion for grand stories and his rather epic view of the world.