Home Known

Part of the warmth of home is knowing,

the feeling, when you are safe and relaxed,

you understand something,

the people around you, the ones you call family,

they know something, and you know it too,

if only by association— the way to act.

And so you will, and so you do,

not just because it is old habit,

it’s what got the bunch of you where you are,

whether through parents or good luck,

there is no denying what it didn’t do—

leave you homeless or under the gun.

Moreover, all it requires, it seems,

is to act like these people around you:

 the simple business of being yourself.