Reunion

Earlier this evening I celebrated with my saaxib qurax baden (“beautiful friend” in Somali) both his birthday and his return from Somaliland.


Welcome home, mate!

Change will come
You are here
Love faded out
Then love reappeared

Now my water’s turned to wine
And these thoughts I have
I now claim as mine
You’ve come home

Change has been
Change will be
Time will tell
Then time will ease

Now my curtain has been drawn
And my heart can go
Where my heart does belong
You’ve come home

– Adapted lyrics of “Reunion”
by Ed Roland (from Collective Soul's
1995 self-titled album)

See also the previous Wild Reed posts:
• Tender and True
• In This In-Between Time
• In Too Deep
• Sunset Reflections and Jet Trail
• Saaxiib Qurux Badan – 6/15/2019
• Mississippi Reflections and Forest Green
• Still Smoldering
• My Love, “Return to the Root of the Root of Your Own Soul”
• Somalia Bound
• Family Time in Guruk . . . and Glimpses of Somaliland

Image 1: Minneapolis, 12/27/2019 (Michael J. Bayly).
Image 2: Somaliland 9/12/2019 (Saaxiib Qurux Badan).