Home Is Where The Heart Is

p nbsp;/p p nbsp;/p p nbsp;/p p nbsp;/p p em(Editor#39;s note: span class="scayt-misspell" data-scayt_word="Terrilyn" data-scaytid="1"Terrilyn/span span class="scayt-misspell" data-scayt_word="Woodfin" data-scaytid="3"Woodfin/span is a poverty scholar, mother and member of POOR Magazine#39;s book publishing class.nbsp; The class is part of strongPOOR PRESS/strong--POOR#39;s publishing arm, providing publishing access for powerful voices to conceive and produce works of poetry, short stories and memoirs.nbsp; This access is in resistance to the publishing industry whose doors are largely closed to poverty scholars.nbsp; We are proud to share span class="scayt-misspell" data-scayt_word="Terrilyn's" data-scaytid="5"Terrilyn#39;s/span poem Homenbsp;nbsp; Isnbsp;nbsp; Wherenbsp;nbsp; Thenbsp;nbsp; Heartnbsp;nbsp; Is--a piece she shared in the presence of her children andnbsp;poverty/span class="scayt-misspell" data-scayt_word="migrante" data-scaytid="7"migrante/span scholars at POOR Magazine#39;s yearly Thanks-taking dinner on November 25th.nbsp; We at POOR Magazine are blessed to have her as part of our family)/em/p p nbsp;/p p nbsp;/p p I wasn#39;t happy because I was losing my home/p p a dwelling place for me and my family/p p The more i fought the idea the more it was becoming my reality/p p But the words kept haunting me/p p Home is where the heart is........./p p nbsp;/p p I wondered and worried day in and day out/p p What was i span class="scayt-misspell" data-scayt_word="gonna" data-scaytid="9"gonna/span do, where were we span class="scayt-misspell" data-scayt_word="gonna" data-scaytid="11"gonna/span go/p p Where were we span class="scayt-misspell" data-scayt_word="gonna" data-scaytid="13"gonna/span live/p p The more i prayed the clearer it came to me/p p It was time to move on but/p p The word kept coming to me/p p Home is where the heart is/p p nbsp;/p p As i pondered what my options were/p p It was clear to me/p p The time had come to an end/p p It was no longer to be/p p We must leave the place we called home/p p But the words continued to come to me/p p Home is where the heart is/p p nbsp;/p p What i came to know is that home/p p Is not a building with planks of wood, plaster, and windows/p p With panes/p p It is simply where your heart is/p p My heard is with the ones I love/p p And no matter where we are/p p We#39;re always at home/p