What is a Home by Shalini Kathuria Narang

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What do you call a home?

A place to rest after you roam.

A pad to share with those with a common genome.

Or is it firstly and fore-mostly – a feeling, a syndrome?

Rooms, furniture and furnishings make a dwelling,

What makes a home a deep, special feeling?

With what and how much effort and intent?

Are homes sustained despite consent and dissent.

While each unit runs on different principles and note,

Home is ideally where members care and camaraderie  devote-

On each other to feel unequivocally loved,

With space to exist as individuals-without being judged.

So many emotions are at play in each home,

Good, bad and ugly-to which we are all prone,

Sentiments are teased and tested at regular doses,

High and low feelings exist with and without proses.

Happy homes run on large heartedness,

Dollops of forgetfulness and forgiveness,

Not on dominance and oneupmanship,

But on positive vibes and lasting friendship.

-SHALINI KATHURIA NARANG

Shalini Kathuria Narang is a Silicon Valley based software professional and freelance journalist. She has reported for national and international newspapers, magazines and news sites. Her poems have been published in several anthologies including Starry Nights: poetry of Diaspora in Silicon Valley . She is a monthly contributor to Masticadores USA and has been published on Spillwords Press. Her blog site is:  Rhythm and Rhyme. She is originally from New Delhi and has settled in the Bay Area with her husband and two daughters for 25+ years.

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