Home Comfort

Much of the warmth of home is knowledge,

the notion, when you are safe and sound,

that you know why: it’s because of your family.

They know something, and you know it too,

if only by association— the way to act

that profits and protects.

You know this, not only as studied habit

that got the bunch of you where you are,

but as something easy, requiring only acting 

like them, which you already do:

it’s the business of being and seeing yourself,

mirrored and multiplied.