Hope

I want a house with a little land where I can grow things

Tomatoes, apples, basil, cilantro.

And maybe a chicken or two, 

So that I can gather eggs for breakfast after making coffee. 

A small plot of vines,

Enough grapes for a barrel or two,

To share with a warm, silent evening

Maybe a wooden table, under the trees, 

With lights strung between the canopy of stars. 

A little dirt to muddy my hands,

To watch those seeds sprout to food.

A small house with a little land,

And maybe you to grow old with.

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