When I leave this place
When I leave this place I will thank it, for being a home we loved well. I will thank the walls for keeping us safe. The windows for giving us light. I will thank each room for their memories. The roof over our heads for being shelter.
When I leave this place I will leave with more gratitude than sadness. We spent our first days married here. We had our first child here. I learned how to build community in deeper ways here. I had countless nights with family here. Too many walks to the beach to count. I also learned the stress of obligation to rent much too high, and the free feeling knowing we can walk away when we want to a simpler life.
When I leave this place there will be tears, but I hope the next people in this home will be has happy as we have been. That these walls will know joy again. The ground will feel the steps of people who love this home and consider it a sacred place. I hope they treat it with the same care we did. Though we never owned it, we treated this home with great respect, pride and love.
When I leave this place I will love it just as much as I do today. Smiling, looking up at the vaulted ceilings watching light bounce all around the room. I know I will wake up in a new home. We don’t know where it will be, or what it will look like but it’s waiting for us. Waiting for our memories. Waiting for our love. Waiting for our laughter. I will wake up there just as I do here and say, “Another amazing day, in a home I love with the family I love.” Because home is wherever we are together.
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