Home means a safe haven

A loving dog to greet me when I return

Home is a sense of belonging

An identifying with a place that formed our beginnings

Not feeling walled in against the world but an open door to it

Living with beloved people, a landscape you understand

Objects with memories, comfort, security, caring

A place that I can call my own, home sounds

But home echoes, reverberates, cuts and hurts

You on the outside looking into other people’s sitting rooms

You on the pavement in the cold

Home is central heating and a comfortable bed,

Home is where one lays one’s head,

A safe haven where you can be yourself

By Annie,