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Your New Home

Home is where the heart lives, a place where you are free and in no harm, a place that you go when you feel frustrated. It is where you can express your feelings and not bullied for what you say. You are loved no matter what happens and you will always be cared for. You watch your house rising from the earth and nothing will stop it. It will rise from the ground and look upon you. You can hear it say “come, live in me and we will be happy together.” You listen and you give it an answer, “we will be happy together.” You step in and are now part of it. You know the heart of your house and nothing can tear you apart. As you look around you see an empty inside and it is time you stay. You nest like a robin in a tree, you are in your home and that is where you will stay. As you listen to the moving van come in, you go up your new steps to the top floor to claim you room and you settle in. Now you lie in your bed and unpack your bag, sort your clothes into different piles. Now you can play with your family in your new backyard. You play games for so long that it is almost impossible to tell the time and after your parents say that you have to go to bed. You want to say “it’s only been one minute” but you don’t want to push your luck so you take your bath and brush your teeth and go to your bed. You get yourself comfortable and with one blink, you are gone into a deep, dark sleep. You are home.

Marcus

Grade 5

Edmonton, Alberta

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