The Back Porch Review 2021

Take Me Home
By Nadine Yamout, grade 12
A little place, I call my base, my safe space
where the wind whistles and the dew perspirates
for how can I leave this little town I call home?
How can I leave this place?
They say you don’t know what you’ve got until you don’t “got it.”
A few more months and I’ll be miles away
I just wish I could stay.
I’m not ready to move forward
I’m not ready to start my life.
College is scary but I know what is right.
No more sounds of barking or daddy’s laugh.
No more momma’s cooking or sissy’s math.
Twelve years go by in the blink of an eye.
How is it already time?
For nothing else will compare to the memories born here.
Take me home.
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