steadfast

i've never really responded much
to all the talk about you
being unchanging,
but in the midst of
new banks and bathrooms,
new accents and aromas,
in a land of new roads,
and new people,
and just so much new,
i'm glad for the constant that is
You.
You, though,
are steadfast, not static,
steady, not statuesque,
a sojourner. 
in a new land,
you have not changed;
your love remains.

-gregory a. milinovich