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Building Love: Unveiling the Heartfelt Meaning Behind 'Home' by Paul Armfield
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With mortar, bricks and sticks
Building the home with basic construction materials - mortar, bricks, and sticks.
With elbow-grease and wit
Constructing the home through hard work and cleverness.
With common-sense, affection and occasionally force
Using practicality, love, and occasionally coercion to shape the home.
The love that we have poured
The poured love manifesting in the home.
Spills out all over these four walls
The overflowing love within the home's confines.
The house that has become our home
Reflecting on the house as a place that has transformed into a home.
With charity, panache
Adorning the home with charity, style, and a bit of haphazardness.
Perhaps just a healthy dose of slap-dash
Acknowledging the importance of a casual and carefree approach.
The fixtures and the fittings have all fallen into place
Every element fitting seamlessly into the home.
In every piece of furniture
Furniture containing imprints of the occupants.
An indentation of our bones
The personal touch in every piece of furniture.
In the house that has become our home
Reiterating the idea of the house evolving into a cherished home.
Occasionally on cold dark nights I walk imaginary dogs
Narrator metaphorically walking imaginary dogs, contemplating life.
Around the houses in the neighbourhood
Strolling around the neighborhood during cold, dark nights.
For hours and hours and hours
An extended period of contemplation.
Imagining if I could just walk in on any life
Imagining entering any life but choosing only the narrator's own home.
The only door I'd open would be ours
Expressing a strong connection to the narrator's own home.
Ours is a home where love has grown
Describing a home where love has flourished and family has grown.
Learned to read and stand alone
Highlighting the home as a place of learning and independence.
There's a corner for the tantrums and a chimney for the heat
Designating specific areas for emotional expressions within the home.
A drainpipe for the tears that we have shed
Symbolizing emotional release through a drainpipe for tears.
For those who've flown
Referencing departed individuals who were once part of the home.
From the house that has become
Reflecting on the home's role in people's lives.
After all is said and done
Summarizing the home's significance after everything is considered.
This is the house that has become our home
Reiterating that the house has evolved into a meaningful home.
Ours is a home
Declaring the home as a personal space to call one's own.
Somewhere to call your own
Defining the basic elements of a home - walls, door, roof, and individual presence.
Four walls, a door, a roof and you
Concluding with the fundamental components that make a place a home.
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