Haunted Home

I wanted so badly 
to know every darkened piece of coal 
beneath your sooted mantle
See for myself how every well lit pane
Became a sunlit stage
Where the glittered dust danced so graceful
How every long hallway corridor 
led to every spiral staircase
Alway leading to something more
The home you built, the person that you are
I wanted so badly 
to share with you, my soul
the messy, slightly broken home
I rebuilt with stone
And called my own 
finding common grounds beneath each other  
Our shared days were spent in cherished laughter
Our Nights held sacred as we explored one another
Laying out upon the sheets blueprints that were seldom blue
Describing to each other all of our rooms
From the textures of the floors
And the nails in every board
To the displays on the walls
And all that they saw
We shared the rooms full of light
And the ones we chose to keep locked tight
The messes in the corners we couldnt seem to clean
And future renovations we hoped to soon see
I fell in love with the walk throughs you gave to me 
So into your hands I placed my key
I trusted you so I entrusted to you all that was me
In love with the home that you described
I soon danced in its halls inside my mind
Forgetting the key you would never provide
Blending instead your home and mine
Upon common grounds made from truthless soil
We set the table and watched it spoil
The aging of time caused the foundation to shift  
life rubbed holes through the walls and the brick
The truth revealed through the facade now thinned
lies built the home I loved and the house where you hid
Copyright © | Year Posted 2024

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