I left home twenty years ago
Just a bride of eighteen,
I left the only home I'd known
For a new life in pastures green.
Twenty miles south by south east,
Twenty miles to raise our girls,
Twenty miles so they'd be raised
Twenty miles away from a violent world.
Those twenty years we were like yo-yos
Up and down the motorway,
Perhaps you were sick or John was working
On a particularly riotous day.
See, really I had never left;
There was were I laid my hat,
There we had our birthday parties,
There was were the grandkids sat.
Then things turned for the worse,
That home is ours no longer now,
You went ahead before us
To prepare our castle in the clouds.
Now as I drive past the banners
And shopfronts, as I begin to roam,
The final tether has been severed
Tying me here. I'm finally leaving home.
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@naaviie thanks chick, this was just what mum was saying as we left because we've no family up there except some druggie cousins haha ๐
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