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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=463378" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Long Way Home</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Home is where true love dwells<br>Life giving sustenance always flows from her wells<br>The comfort of her arms invites and compels<br>Nourishing those that would only seek<br>Her guiding light week after week<br>I left the safety of my mother's home<br>So excited, but I had long to roam<br>And I look and I look<br>In each garden and darkened nook<br>I fear I am lost, no home in sight<br>No one will have mercy on my terrifying plight<br>I think I have taken the long way home.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I was his temporary toy<br>Being close to him; my temporary joy<br>Passion burnt so hot, it threatened to destroy<br>But I viewed his dirty bag of tricks<br>Appeared like a welcomed oasis<br>Until kindness changed to cruel faces<br>I have learnt to recognize those particular Places<br>Eagerly I seek a home, somewhere to rest my weary feet<br>Along the way so many like me I meet<br>Diligently I continue to seek<br>At times it all seems so very bleak<br>I may have taken the long way home.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Borne the fruit of mistaken love<br>Blessed with her, this gift from above<br>I have watched this beautiful seed grow<br>Her first steps, first speech<br>The first time she learnt to reach<br>Yet, there was no home for me there<br>No love would he share<br>But my wonderful gift I will nourish and care<br>My soul was in jeopardy, I fled<br>Looking for a home, while my heart's wound bled<br>I had to take the long way home.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Many Instances where I've been hurt<br>And with danger I occasionally flirt<br>I fell hard a few times and broke my Heart<br>Had my Soul almost torn apart<br>I cry and cry<br>So much so I thought I would die.<br>Time and time again the scars have healed <br>And my sentence repealed<br>Released from the jail of my self-made grief.<br>And I hid and fled like a thief<br>From searching eyes<br>Chains that sought to restrict my flight<br>Innocence lost<br>Stronger than I thought<br>I was almost caught<br>Yes, I have taken the long way home.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Precious and scarce is true love, <br>Coveted, some try to steal<br>Upon receipt no appeal.<br>They take what they can, then long gone<br>They move on.<br>I am not the same, <br>Learnt the rules of the game<br>Changed, no longer me, but she.<br>I keep going along life's busy street<br>People come and people go<br>Some flying high, others bowed low<br>My face bears the tracks of my tears <br>My shoulder's strength from the weight of the years<br>I have taken the long way home.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Monciana+Edmondson">Monciana Edmondson</a><div class=q>
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Life giving sustenance always flows from her wells
The comfort of her arms invites and compels
Nourishing those that would only seek
Her guiding light week after week
I left the safety of my mother's home
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