Shelter or Home
By Cleve
Take sticks or stones, limbs or straw
'tis easy to fashion a shelter or lean to
Add doors and windows and secure the roof
To make a house of the shelter if you mean to
Add sinew blood happiness sorrow and pain
And caring and familial sanctuary
And abode there for generations
And make plots out back as resting place
For when age comes and bodies pass being weary
'twill then be a Home that embodies time,
That embodies past present and tomorrow
That speaks of times past, of who and why you are
And how happiness is begat from sorrow
It is lives and passions that make a house a home
It becomes again a shelter when all the family are gone
About the Creator
Cleve Taylor
Published author of three books: Ricky Pardue US Marshal, A Collection of Cleve's Short Stories and Poems, and Johnny Duwell and the Silver Coins, all available in paperback and e-books on Amazon. Over 160 Vocal.media stories and poems.
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