Response to Carry on Tuesday prompt, "Home is where the heart is."

Relocation

You ask me

where I live.

I say, “Within myself.”

“Nonsense!” you reply.

“I mean, where is your house?”

“It’s here,

within my heart;

it beats

inside of me.”

You shake your head

and laugh.

“How silly

can you be?”

I smile

and reply,

“The walls I had

burnt down.

I built it from

my memories;

it’s built on

solid ground.

And though I may need

shelter,

my home will

always be

a place

within my heart

that beats

inside of me.”






Note: I have not lost my house to fire.  This is just where my mind went when I started thinking about what the prompt meant.

Image: http://local.realestatebook.com/providence-ri/2011/01/25/home-is-where-the-heart-is/