This poem is yet another from the writing challenge I set myself. The prompt was to open the dictionary, and write about whatever word you saw first- mine was adopt.
Immediately, I began thinking about the city I live in and was reminded of a conversation I'd had with someone who grew up here a few years ago. I moved here in 2016 from London and have completely fallen in love. During tough times, this was the place that picked me off my feet and I am forever thankful that I now, very happily, call it home. When speaking to my friend who grew up here he simply couldn't understand why I loved it so much, to which I replied- It's the place where I became who I am, it adopted me and let me live again.
This world, a city,
dragged me by force
unrooted me from a town
that parented me.
It took me in,
made an adult, from a child,
reared me to walk tall,
two feet,
no crawling anymore,
each foot,
on familiar stones.
Home.