Family & Home

On a much smaller scale,
we've got the things
we know best: family & home.

It's funny how obsessive
people can get about
these things, counting
them almost as much
as status markers as
anything else they might
find themselves with.

They say family & home
are important, but deep down,
we all know what always,
inevitably comes first, and
it's a terrible thing to admit,
but it's always true: the self.

The self, even in sacrifice,
considers itself important,
even in a selfless act, and
if can just learn to admit that,
rather than deny and camouflage,
I think we'd be better off,
because then we could understand
how family & home, and then
everything else, fits in.

Because that's the progression,
a sense of the self, then
those most around us, our family,
and then the thing we keep
with us always, a sense of home,
no matter what form it takes.

Family & home,
never go without long
with a sense of our own.