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Leaving Home
My mother's gentle lullabyes still softly echo here,
And tears of yesterdays long past have dried and been dismissed.
The dreams and fears of budding youth have all but disappeared;
Replaced by plans, ambitions, goals, deciphered from the mists
Of what the world will someday need and what my place within;
The boundless paths that I could take, no limits but my own.
To teach or earn or build or serve or save the world from sin,
My path awaits for me to choose, now that I'm fully grown.
But what the cost of taking steps into this crazy world,
Where cats and eagles lie in wait for me, a lowly mouse?
How can I hope to navigate the raging torrent's whirls
If I must leave this solid rock: my fam'ly and my house?
But this I know, beyond all doubt, no matter where I roam,
This house is but the outer shell: I'll never lose my home.
*I love writing in sonnet form. There's plenty of real-estate to say what you want to say but there's also enough structure that you need to figure out a way to make every word count. You can't just ramble on as thoughts come to you. You actually have to think about how to make them work or if they should even be included at all. Fun!
Hope you like it. It's obviously about leaving the house you grew up in to live on your own for the first time.*
Beautiful writeup , I like it
Its very tough to leave home, when I was in college life many of my friends were came for the study from different cities and they were lived in hostel, I went out their hostel once in a week and I felt there that how lucky I am, I am living in my home. With home life is very tough, my best wishes to those who left their home for any reason.
It is very difficult to leave home and live in another place as we have seen that the condition of Pakistan economy not good and many people from here go to Dubai and earn money to supports his family and here there are small event's, there he is very depressed because he cannot attend them. Those people are lucky who are living with their family at this time and their conditions are also good and their business is also going well.
Thank you for this beautiful script, this relates to an anticipated transition to adulthood faced by torrents of troubles but alas, adieu to home as we face reality
A very reflective poem about the decision to leave the house where he grew up, knowing that out there he will face a world full of problems and people very different from his way of thinking and living, but at the end he makes it clear that his home will not cease to exist. Good poetic text, greetings my friend.
Very nice poem, many of us abandon to seek new opportunities or have more life experiences that will enrich us in the near future, but in the end the good son always comes back home, thanks for sharing this poem ♥
It's so meaningful. Leaving home to what you're so use to do, that's so distressing !
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😊👍 yes, i like it. u said it good..
even got the 'cat' part! :P
and i would add on to it now that mom is living with me, and it's like SHE is the child and I am now taking care of her. :)
Even if it means leaving home for another in the same city or country, it is an experience that can be felt; even more so when it comes to emigrating, going to a different country, a reality that is so common these days. Your poem expresses well those sensations and emotions. Thank you for participating in the #BlockchainPoets challenge. Regards, @dagger212.
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