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From: "Jean Rice" <>
Subject: [IGW] "Home," Eileen McGOVERN (contemp.)
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 06:26:52 -0800

HOME

I come,
So keen,
To feel it all again,
To climb the hill,
Knowing the old house is there,
And when I reach the top,
So happy, and smiling
I know,
There is nothing there,
Yet it is all there,
And I know
I am home.

No sound,
But silence,
The breeze, the birds, my past,
All about me calls to me within,
So loudly
And yet it is quiet,
All life, now gone,
Yet so lively,
And I know,
I am home.

Laughter, songs,
Long ago laughed and sung,
Small feet, in boots,
All sound about me,
The trees, the bushes,
So old,
There then and now
I hear it all,
And I know
I am home.

So sad,
Life past,
All gone,
No more,
But who,
Once I have gone,
Will love this place as I
And know
That they
Are home?

-- Eileen McGovern, "The Leitrim Guardian"

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