CALL ME BELOVED

if you miss the exit then you’re going to get lost,
so keep to the right and scour the streets for spots
like the rest of us, stake your claim and ease your way in.

when I go out I wrap the warmth of home around me,
I carry it down the streets so it’s never far,
the echo of your perfume, our cat’s clean fur –

it makes me remember the kindnesses in my life,
rekindled in the sunlight as I make my way
back to our front door.