A Guide to Creating a Home

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How do you create a home? 
You plant a sapling in a desolate space. 
Then go away. 
Let days grow into months
 and months grow into years. 
And then one day,
all the roads that led to your hitherto-home will have thorns growing.
It is then that you will return,
with blood-caked feet,
and sit under your tree,
and have its yellow shadow envelop you.
It is then that you will thank that stranger
who put seeds in your palm
on a dreary morning
and told you that
second homes can grow
in the most unlikely places
if one dares to plant
Hope.

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