Name: Searching in Vain for a Home
Duration: P00H01M09S
Description: The “home” for which I was searching was not a brick-and-plywood structure but a person—a woman who’d spoken to me in a dream in 1995.

Searching in Vain for a Home

from Russia by Xristopher Bland

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The “home” for which I was searching was not a brick-and-plywood structure but a person—a woman who’d spoken to me in a dream in 1995.

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Searching in Vain for a Home

I am searching in vain for a home
Far forever it seems I must roam
ever distant, it seems, from the luck and the means
I am searching in vain for a home

Far from visions once happy in bed
and the soul who’d go looking for bread
far from grace and calamity
blade and humanity
searching in vain for a home

Sometimes, I will fall apart
Then, to the earth, I will fall
Teardrops dripping from my heart
Then, to the One, I will call

And then brave I can be once again
for the grey which is hiding an end
and the thin hope of rest in a bed for the blessed
I am searching in vain for a home

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from Russia, track released January 31, 2011

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