We were the renting people
All houses within six blocks
Stayed in the school district
Elementary to high school
Three bedrooms - two baths
Renters, stories all could tell
Families, divorces, deaths
Holidays and get togethers
Kid’s Birthdays, sleepovers.
The non-stop churning of lives.
One house had tons of roaches.
One house had chiminey rats.
One house had loads of spiders.
These were our houses, til one day
My parents bought us a home.
My home - I was already 13
I finally had my own space.
A place to call my very own.
I now knew that a house
Is not always a home.
Ownership of memories,
A room, mine to decorate.
Friends and relatives
Gather at my home.
Mostly a home of my own
Means I don’t have to move
When the lease is up.
About the Creator
pamela mayer
Pamela Mayer does all things creative — theatre, art, and writing. She is certain she will bump into her Prince Charming in the produce section of Trader Joe’s, Miami Beach very soon.
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