Known Landscape

What is this phenomena?
Onetime unfamiliar landscape
Known?
And loved!

Where did the strangeness go?
I think it fled -- In dread!
Of a surging sense
Of a happy feeling
Of belonging.

But how and when?
Ha! I know why
And why is who
And who is you!

You who make this place
You with your smiling face
Impossible to replace
Ah! You are too many to embrace
(At once, that is)

The first day back is over, now
To another's embrace
To the arms of morpheus
I race

Goodnight
I hope to see you
At breakfast

-NSG