13 July 2012

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.

DelilahAll Growed Up • Opuss № I