Home is more than just a noun

Author Bethany J. Riddle

Home is more than just a noun

Bethany J. Riddle

Home is more than just a noun,
though the Oxford dictionary may try to tell you differently.
But home can be an adverb when he holds you to his chest.
Or that feeling of returning, 
to where you were always meant to be.
If you believe in that sort of thing.
There’s a reason young people go away for a time, 
before they realize the very thing they seek— 
is right where they left it, 
when they thought it needed to be found. 
Home is more than wooden frames and painted doors,
tiled bathrooms and outdated cupboards.
Home is more than a concrete box, 
cold and indifferent to the occupants it contains.
Home is more than just a noun, 
even when the mind has lost its way.
Even when the beating heart,
forgets.

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