Finding Home

from Echoes by Lindsey Shields

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Written after my first trip back to the land of my birth, an emotional journey which saw me reconnect with people and places of my childhood, allowing me to feel restored.

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Over there, I don’t have to try too hard
Among my own, my heart is free
It’s the place where I don’t have to prove anything
Finding home, I can just be.

There’s cousin Jean and Aunt Ella
Taking tea and reminiscing
Over frozen moments photographed and fading
Great grandpa’s work boots polished up
And the dog at his knee
Shed a tear for the loved ones
No longer here and waiting

Finding home, I can feel my mother there
Though her ashes lie strewn beneath some distant tree
Now I know what left the chimney on that day
Was her spirit heading home across the sea


Where they’re singing songs of lochs and glens
In the highlands they’ll go roaming
While a distant tune pipes and fiddle
Floats on the breeze in the gloaming

Chickens running in the yard
Wee Jenny standing in the doorway
And the baby on his Grandpa’s knee
Aunt Martha churning butter
And the men out making hay
That’s the way things always used to be

The journey taken many years ago
Migration half a world from home
The circle now has been completed
And I’m safe, here among my own
No matter where I roam
Finding home

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from Echoes, released May 8, 2018

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Lindsey Shields Dunedin, New Zealand

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