Home Sweet Home

Home sweet home Hello. Please allow me to introduce you to my humble abode Off the beaten path, down a paved road, and across a dirt roadway Mother was the undisputed family superstar, loving all 12 of us equally Enemies number one and two to this lowly community were ignorance and poverty Sunny muggy days were plenty, and they often took a portion of sweetness right off our table Whether we had good times or bad, sad or glad, there was no defeat to this great family Every day the sun came up in the East and set in the Western sky, we were thankful Earnings brought meager gains; labor produced pains; but the determination remained Teachers felt obligated to destroy ignorance, and were devoted to reading, writing, and arithmetic Happiness wasn’t something I craved for, from somewhere out there; it was at home within me On those rainy days of Summer which seldom came, we played ball, Jump Rope, and Hide &Seek Mary, mama’s friend, had the first television in our community; we watched Tarzan and Superman Every Monday night when we were little, daddy took us to town where we watched the big screen 01302016(PS Contest, “Home Sweet Home”, sponsored by James Hamilton)