Where Is Home

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"Happiness doesn't lie in conspicuous consumption and the relentless amassing of useless crap. Happiness lies in the person sitting beside you and your ability to talk to them. Happiness is clearheaded human interaction and empathy. Happiness is home. And home is not a house--home is a mythological conceit. It is a state of mind. A place of communion and unconditional love."

Dennis Lehane, in The Sun (magazine), "Sunbeams," p. 48, October, 2021

Among several sublime
and subprime
sacred meanings
and secular purposes
for HOME,
in October Sunbeams
of BlueSky enlightenment
and GreenEarth empowerment,

Dennis Lehane's HOME
refining peaceful stable minds
defining sacred communion
for unconditional compassionate love,
not intentionally unkind

I could not sync
with mythological
or ecological
or theological CONCEIT

But, also could not find a replacement
until recalling indigenously wise
nature-spirited refacement
of EarthMother's EcoRoom,
a regenerate matriarchal WOMB

Making peace for Here
Now sacred place,
until we disregard
dismantle
desecrate
and degenerate,
in AnthroSupremacist ways
down toward MotherEarth's TOMB
GLOOM

Extracted
cancelled 
pathological HOME 
of DOOM

Which maybe does say something
about mythologically epic
CONCEIT.

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