HOME

 Author: Joy D'Penha

Title: HOME

Year: 2021

The author writes a poem on the differences between our Earthly Home and our Heavenly Home, and tells us that the Earthly Home is temporary and our Heavenly Home is permanent and everlasting. Enjoy the beauty of this poem that make you experience the Heavenly Home well in advance.

A place built with love and care

Where siblings learn to live and share

Mummy tirelessly cooks countless delicious meals

And never once thought it's a big deal

Daddy fixes stuff and makes things ready to use

Works hard for his family he gives no excuse

A home is where you go back to

When the world throws stones and makes fun of you

You find it safe and it brings solace to your hearts

There's still someone who cares for you from the very start

Home is where you can be yourself

And need not put on a show to pretend

You have fun and laugh together in unity

And cry on each others shoulder in solidarity

But this is just our earthly home

And one day we have to leave and go

To the greatest Home forever where my Heavenly Father lives

You need not be pretty, you need not be rich

He will welcome you with His arms wide open

Every heart He mends that is sorrowful and broken

There is no crying, there's no more pain

The joys that you experience is hard to explain

There's singing and praising all due to Him

Every creature big and small joins in the hymns

The streets are made of gold, where you see dancing peacocks

With the sweetest fruits on the trees and the flowers do talk

Stream of rivers runs smoothly passing through the rocks

All gather together in a pool where the fish sing praises and hops

The foxes and dogs together play happily

With the lions and sheep and they make a great family

The colors are so plenty there are more than a rainbow

Beautiful and unexplainable each one has its own glow

The gates of Heaven are huge and tall

With angels guarding both big and small

They serve as great messengers to my Father above

And hover over us to guard and love

They take our messages what we ask in prayer

And places in our Fathers' hands to give hope to the despair

My Father sends them back to Earth

With answers to our prayers e'en though we are not of worth

One day I will be in my Father's HOME

And embrace my Lord who is sitting on the right side of His Throne