Calling Home

I move out.
Walk into the wild
Run away from confrontation.
--- I call myself brave.

I move out.
Avoid pain
Avoid blame
--- Call myself independent.

I move out.
Live with my partner
Share life, refuse marriage
--- I call myself nonconformist.

My home
Is not a house
Is not a place

It is an abstraction
A space within
Where basic variations survive.

I move out.
Of constrictions
Into contradictions
Into language known and foreign

--- I move into life.