the Traveller

A traveller remembered
is the same
as one gone home,
five memories and a tin foil ring
and sea glass for the bookshelf,
gathering dust
alongside books
once read and twice forgotten,
a hollow box for jewelry
that he'll never fill
at all,
I'm keeping all my
promises
but he's not making any.
Sense?
He sent his love away,
a postcard unaddressed,
his next adventure
waiting
and he knows he'll go alone,
with no one now to hold to
and no one to impress,
the traveller remembered
her
and in his mind
found home.

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