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Yearning to be home

A lifetime dream

By Jan PortugalPublished 3 years ago 1 min read
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Yearning to be home
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She couldn't have been much more than eight

When it struck her this house * this family was not her fate

I don't know these people - they don't know me

We never make time to relate or to even just to be

They don't seem to like me either

they don't even like each other

There's no common ground to share

No affection no * communal care

We just go about our business unaware

What does it mean standing in the dark

of night pleading to the sky to take her home.

A young mind - Not yet spoiled

From being too long in this world,

remembering a dream of a warm

loving place somewhere * out there * called home

She remembered love, not what she feels here

Her Libra heart chose to believe Venus

was her planet of love * her last place to be

So there she is - found more nights than one

Beseeching for someone to please

please come to take her home.

Year's gone on - now a woman - no longer eight but 81

Standing in the backyard still staring at the night sky

begging for some way to reclaim the

All but lost feeling of being back home

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About the Creator

Jan Portugal

I love the adventure writing takes me on. I enjoy the idea of sharing them with an audience. I hope you enjoy my visions too.

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