Almost Home

Home isn’t always a place you picture in your mind With furniture and cookies and music playing And people laughing. Home is something you can carry around like a dream And let it grow in your heart until you’re ready for it. Losing things helps you appreciate when you find them again And finding things gives you hope that when you lose things It might not be forever Once, long ago, a girl lost the true meaning of home, but she Didn't lose her dream. She hung on to it as the wind kept trying to Blow it away, But that just made it stronger So now she had keys and walls of many colors And people around her who thinks she’s something