The Unexpected Guest is Welcomed Home

The Unexpected Guest Welcomed
By Big Frank Dickinson

The road to your home seems quietly untravelled,
and the sun has not yet risen. Still with the night
fog lingering, a blanket of uncertainty surrounds.

Inevitably, your door is found, and there is a
hollow knock; unexpected, but immediately recognized.
You open as the fog lifts revealing the change.

Your guest has found you; though you wish otherwise.
You cannot turn this one away: “Please come in.”,
you graciously say, in spite of yourself.

“I don’t know how to say this . . .”
“This is hard to say . . .”
“I’m sorry but you need to know.”

And you do need to know; though
you’d rather not; and so you find
yourself saying: “Please have a seat.”

You must say that; and you have.
You welcome this unwelcome guest
to feel as at home as you wish you were.