Take Me Home

Jonathan Conway 2009 (Greenville, OH)



Will You take me home?

Away from those nightmares who roam

Away from the scariness of their throne

Please, will you take me home?

I mustn't not stay a while

For the breeze, it will catch you vile

Will you take me home?

The fire has started dwindling

I’d best not be caught mingling

Will you take me home?

Oh however so I will bore you

Oh your thoughts of me will be true

Will you take me home?

Oh how tired have I been

My house is just along the bend

Will you take me home?

In truth I must truly tell

You will not think of me well

I beg you take me home

I wish not stay any longer

For the pain I’ve felt is not but somber

Just take me home

Oh how dull my eyes
 
Oh how heavy is my voice

You must take me home

This weary world puts its weight upon me and it burns

The stares, the glares, I feel no reassurance

Take me home

Oh but perhaps I could stay a little longer

If not what do I but ponder

Take me home

I will just be a burden

All this pain I feel it hurts

Take me home

Oh the scars, the wounds the blisters

All of those looks, that gossip, those whispers

Just take me home

You wish not bear what resentment lies

Of the talking children that spy

I will ask only once more, take me home

The pain I feel, is to great to continue

Wash away my sorrows, until desire nor virtue

Until the blackness of the night

Swallows me up without a fright

TAKE ME HOME

About this poem

A poem written by Jonathan Conway, that describes the character Boo Radley from "How to Kill a Mockingbird"

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Written on February 09, 2024

Submitted by conwayjonathan09 on February 09, 2024

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Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
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Words 334
Stanzas 45
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Jonathan Conway

I am a Junior High amateur poet who specializes in melodramatic melancholy poems. Poetry is my passion and it's what I love doing. more…

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