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Created on: September 23, 2009
"Coming Home":
When I used to drive up the turnpike
past the oil refineries
as I got deeper and deeper into traffic,
I used envision what being home
Would soon feel like
as I pictured a sense of calm cover over
me as I rode past the lake and joggers
and picturesque scenery....
that would make me push and trod...
just a little bit more.
I'd also remember what it was like
to go home to where I grew up
with swings in the yard...and that old apple tree,
a park at the end of the block
where I'd spend countless summers
playing...and using my imagination ...my friend.
As I went home and turn the bend
to the street where I now live....
a sense of tranquility hovers around me
and although I have made a new home
in the most beautiful place on earth...
I relive those days
when I would go home, come home, and be home...
a place where my mother's dinner bell would call me...
and life was simple...where I was cared for...with snowy days,
birthday parties, and 8mm film...and gumdrops...
would recapture...
Childhood!
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