Musings of a Girl In a Very Strange Place
In every home
there is a place
That is always forgotten,
Is it
Festering with ants
Or
Inhabited by gnomes?
I don't know what goes on
There
In every
Cranny and nook.
And perhaps I never will ever
Know.
But the the buried corner feels like a song
Without a
tune
That I can dance to,
Barefoot on cold wood.
It tastes like chocolate in my mouth
Sweet, dark, lingering.
It makes me sad,
It has memories,
It is alive.
I can feel its heartbeat
Pulsing,
Parallel to mine.
I feel the pull
Of promises of solitude
And answers to its call.
We dance together,
The forgotten corner and I ,
To our heartbeats
Only we can hear
You never get bored
sitting there
On a bright sunny day.
Watching light chase shadows on the floor
playing the game of
cat and mouse.
(I want to stay )
You never get bored
lying there
Listening to the sound of silence
The sound of dust swirling around.
Transparent like a butterfly's wings,
illuminated by the prefect degree of light
(I want to stay)
Yet there is always a few square meters
Where darkness reigns
Open your arms and welcome it like a friend
(I want to stay )
Sit down for a
minute or two
With hands still full of slippery
soapy foam
Feel the weight
Of memories of objects
Here.
Understand it,
Follow me,
I am staying here
Forever.
Oh look!
(sorry I get distracted easily)
What a pretty flowery blue umbrella!
Why is it lying here?
So lonely,
In this hallway where no one ever comes?
hallway of the forgotten,
Hallway of the lost?
Perhaps it
Belonged to Mary Poppins.
One day
In a time when umbrellas are
dragons and unicorns,
objects from a distant forgotten time.
When you and I are dead and gone,
fallen to dust,
Maybe a child would stumble by it,
maybe auction it off for a
couple billion dollars
That's how high a price
An artefact from the twenty-first century
could fetch.
If you want to bury something
Or let something bury you
Shed your fears
let's go,
You and I,
find that dark corner
A safe harbour,
Full of things long forgotten
And you will be forgotten
Too.
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