An Offer

 

Calloused hands from calloused lands

Offering companionship

Hospitality and security

Sleep beneath our roof

If harm should come to you, who sleep

Through my hand or by its absence

Know that all I own is yours

To have and to hold

To keep and to own

So that I may

Stand before you

Like you once stood before my door

Palms outstretched

Nothing to my name

Begging for what I once was offering

 

For all I have is nothing more

Than  what I owe to you.