Longway from home

Long way from home

The supermarket’s café is full of shoppers
the cacophonies of voices melt into a song
old as humanity itself. Feel safe amongst
my own kind, outside this sphere of safety
streets are wide and cold.

I can’t sit here too long occupying a table
for four, must have fallen asleep, a gentle
hand on my shoulder: “You ok, sir? More
coffee? “ “No thank you, it’s time for me
to leave, I still have miles to go”