Author: Sue Young

You can’t go home again

To whispered words

Or bitter accusations

To sibling fights of old

Either killing each other

Or playing hard until the sun goes down

They said it would all end in tears

But cuddles always stopped the crying

And then, sometimes

Parents in tennis matches

Bickering with the umpire

Getting caught in the net

Another day, of making ends meet

Ends either not quite touching

Or too far apart to be tied together

You can’t go home again

To things said or done

Or not said or done

To what could have been

But now, will never be

You can’t go home again

To the silence

And the cacophony

To the contradictory

And the hypocrital

To the elephant in the room

To the realisations you made

To the understanding you came to

You can’t come home again

To the wisdom that is now

It’s another time and place

Home is where you are

Right Now.