I'M GOING HOME
This journey I'm on started in a hospital room.
There I am, feeling safe and at peace in my mother's womb.
The room is filled with love, and I know I'm not alone.
As they hold me in their arms, I know . . . I'm going home.
It's nobody's fault, but things quickly change.
Mom and I go to the south, and Dad stays the same.
Things have been planted, and things have been sown.
There's a new town, a new place to live, and I'm going home.
We spend a little time here and a little time there.
We never lived in one place for more than a year.
We are just looking for a place to belong, a place to call our own.
When we find this place, the traveling stops, and I'm going home.
I travel across this land, making friends along the way.
Looking at the countryside passing by leaves me with nothing to say.
New Mexico, Arizona, and Texas jumping from state to state like a cyclone.
When we find that place that I know is ours, I know I'm going home.
After a while, I grew, and Mom found a new guy.
It is time to move again, so Mom, my sister, and I hop on a plane and fly.
There are many places in my life that I have flown.
This is a new place, an Island adventure, but when I leave here, I'm going home.
Like in "Around the World in 80 Days" and "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,"
All fantasies have a time to start, and it's time for this one to end.
On this journey, there are people I've met and people that I've known.
I've bonded with people all over the world, and now I'm going home.
I can see it coming, but there is nothing I can do; I know it is time.
The journey continues, but Mom goes her way, and I go mine.
She found a place where she would never be alone.
When this journey leaves me with nowhere else to roam, Mom, I'm going home.
I will always have the ones I've loved and held close to my heart.
But all journeys must end just as they all must start.
The road ends on this journey, and I've turned into a godless gnome.
If anyone should ask after I'm gone, just tell them I've found peace, and I'm going home.
STANLEY HENDRIX
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