She waits at home for my return
I'll never understand why.
She brings me hope, and heart
yet sees an ending looming.
She holds the world together
with strength that no one knows.

Yet to the final hour
she never seems to falter.
She sees an ending looming but
I sit and wonder.
Does she see beyond
something else indeed,
Has she found in me a place
to leave behind a seed.
Something of her to take away,
and yet to never leave.