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Home Is Wherever I Left A Little Piece Of My Heart

Home is the people and places I love

Colleen Millsteed
2 min readSep 8, 2021
Home Is Wherever I Left A Little Piece Of My Heart. Home is the people and places I love. A Poem written by Colleen Millsteed.
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Home, where exactly is the place I call home
Is it in a bustling city or a rural country town,
Does it mean a particular building or house
Or an old faded comfortable dressing gown?

No, none of all that is the place I call home
Home is all about the love I feel in my soul,
The love of the people buried deeply inside
A few special people who make my life whole.

Top of that list would be my two amazing Sons
Time in their company evokes a special feeling,
A smile, a hug and the words I love you Mum
Instantly takes me home and I start the healing.

My two older Sisters and my younger Brother
Teleport me home instantaneously at will,
The sound of their voices or a peel of laughter
All take me home where I can relax and be still.

Memories can also take me home when I allow
Remember a small country town in my youth,
Home to my teenage years where I felt love
Living authentically comfortable in my truth.

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Colleen Millsteed
Colleen Millsteed

Written by Colleen Millsteed

Top Writer in Poetry. I’m a Finance Manager with a love of both numbers and words.

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