Home is Where Love Grows

Rain fell to the patio

Sounds like piano keys hitting the cars

I remember the first moment I had a realization

Nothing too big nor too small

But definitely a truth, a very important one too

About the year I fell in love, like rain refreshes the earth, I fell…

The first and last place I once called home, safe and peaceful, I endured many things handed to me before living there and it was a miracle in my eyes…

To grow in a small and beautiful home

I let my roots run deep within the heart of this house

I let my arms reach through the roof and into the foggy night sky

I embraced it all and everything surrounding my good ol friend

Home.

I remember the first moment I had a realization

About a place here, I thought I'd not feel happy again, I grew a new light within me… I found my smile again

This place gave me hope, it gave me strength, it brought me peace of mind and soul

My heart is full again and my spirit high with heavenly energy to just

Live

I won't forget the moment I had the last night I spent there

I held all the emotion inside and let it all out

As I cried, raining down my cheeks

I smile, I sing inside, and thank this year of healing in this special little home

“I know I want to stay, but I know I must go. If I don't go now, then I'll never leave.”

I had to let go of the strong power this home and I held dear.

The power of feeling happy, finally, but only happy together.

Like a companion in life, when one needs to stay and the other needs to go because they each have plans and they each have goals…

This magical forest surrounding this wondrous home, I know it couldn't go with me anywhere, and I know I couldn't go anywhere if I stayed there.

I had to leave because I have big dreams…

And if this home, I’ll never lose sight of, were a person… I imagine what she'd be sayin’:

“I heard your cries, and held you close. I know your world and have seen your work. I know you're strong and each day growing stronger. The world out there knows you not and they'll never see you coming. You have something that out-there has yet to have the pleasure of seeing, but here in this heart of mine I know all of you, and you I will never forget. Go on. I forgive your feelings of sadness, you feel you shouldn't leave, and that's okay, I'll be here when you come back. Don't rush your life, live in every moment. Out there, there's so many like me. You'll see me again. I'll be smaller, I'll be bigger, I'll be as little as a potato bug or as cute as a puppy. I'll be a new best friend or the world entire. Home is where you go, I'll always be with you. So grow, live, love, hope and fly. Give the world all your love and the world will give you memories of treasure and wonder, so don't lose your curiosity nor your eagerness to learn everything. Do it all. Live it all. You do truly deserve the sun in your life. Don't ignore the rain though. That's what's helping you grow. Without rain, then what is the lesson?

Live, and always remember…”

~ Home is where love goes.

Here, a sunflower 🌻 and a friend 🐝, growing in my little old garden. I still miss this place, and I know I'll see and feel what I felt wherever I go with whoever I meet. Home grows/goes farther than we think, I think. 💖🦄