An IOU for a giftfic that I'm struggling to write. Smith, I hope you enjoy your special day.
H o m e
Your stomach is clenching, you swallow and breathe,
You've never been frightened, you're always at ease.
The plane's moving faster with powerful bounds,
The luggage is shifting, the piles and the mounds.
You move out the way and tighten your fists.
You've held with position for hours amidst
The bags and the cases, the big and the small
And you're praying that, when the time comes you won't fall.
You know the rides safe, you've done it before
But it's been two long years since you walked through that door.
How will they take it and what will they say?
Were they frustrated at the length of your stay?
How are their jobs, are they fine, do they cope?
Your stomach is twisting with fear and with hope.
Do they know that you missed them each day you were there?
That you cried the first week. That you wished they were here.
Do they think you just left them, that you stayed on your own?
Not wishing each day you weren't so damn alone,
That you wished to be better, you tried far too hard.
But without them your leadership fell to discard.
There's turbulence now and you shut your eyes tight.
Do they know you hate flying, but with them it's alright?
You know with each moment, you're closer to home.
You know that they're there, you're no longer alone.
But will they take you back after what you have done?
You sigh and lean back and you bite at your tongue.
You wonder's whose leading- it's Raph, maybe Don
You wonder how you could have left for so long.
Set in the 2007 Movie. Leonardo's thoughts on the plane ride home.