Home

by Megan Aries - Not entered

I figure that if it smells like
home, and it tastes like home, then
it must be home. I can hear laughter
coming from the corridor, it moves 
down the stairs and into the kitchen
where love is beckoning me. I will 
not go. I want to stay in this room,
my dock of insecurities. All the 
problems I left here are still
waiting, much to my dismay.

Spending time here makes my life
elsewhere seem trivial. I love the 
smell of the air and the motions the
trees make, its like they are begging
me to stay. The brown of this airport
reflects the color of my heart. I wish
I could stay, stay with my sweet best
friend who can read me like a book.
Or stay with you, a man I know I've
known in another life.

I wonder if people can read my face
as they walk by. I need to understand
the pulling of my soul to stay in this
city. Its like the undertow of the ocean
I knew as a child. I probably should
consider myself lucky. I have a first
class ticket to one of the most beautiful
and exciting cities in the world...my
substitute home. I figure that life
waits for you where ever you go. I just
hope that I can come back home when the 
seasons change and start my life where
I left it today.

Reason for writing:

    I went home for the holidays, it was kinda tramatic.
This is actually three poems put together.    

Birth sign: Not entered
Date created: 1999-01-04 23:20:55
Last updated: 2021-03-03 14:40:47
Poem ID: 51408

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