Abandoned

This forsaken house seems haunted filled with shifting shadowed realms that change from splayed moonlight Silent are the steps once taken through the rusty hinged cobweb-covered doors that hang like worn-out relics from another time The only sound is of mice scurrying across crumpled paper of bleak reckoning where memories from its past still live between broken windows and torn rain stained wallpaper where roaches crawl to hide No one knows when or why it was deserted as it stands as a monument from long ago alone on top of a hill, above a stone bridge covered in brush and thickets Most have only seen it in daylight It's now a place the young dare each other to stay the night Some say they see figures holding lamps floating by the windows before they hear a scream from death's abyss No one really knows I peaked into its windows once Now, I just pass by and stare into its dim-lit world of yesterday, and wonder 6/14/20 contest Thesaurus-Abandon or Abandoned sponsor Dear Heart