Travel

Based on the following prompt: Prompt # 12

NaPoWriMo 2019 Day 11

After a long, varied childhood

It’s nice to stay home

To have this colorful place, set

Just the way I like it. To have pets

And financial stability, one toothbrush

That I never forget.

I finally set out to travel

When I was 27. It took that long

To find the resources I needed,

To have the adventure I longed for-

And I immediately became homesick.

The adventure was ethereal

While in my home my cats paced

My plants grew and my rabbits chewed.

I have bits of Argentina to hold onto,

Bits that often slip from sweaty palms

When I’m feeling anxious and uneasy.

I work harder to hold onto what’s right here:

What I needed when I was a child;

What I had to scrape for and build on my own;

Where I don’t need a map to go around the block.

I am the adult I always needed,

This is the home I always craved.