The Cottage

Down verdant lanes and muddy tracks a neglected cottage dwells encroaching growth of trees and grass and long gone last farewells. Broken slates and shattered brick with ivy clinging tight encrusted panes and shattered frames suppress and block the light. An open door on one hinge swings to entice and crave attention to an inky dark forlorn and stark with a feeling of apprehension. Wallpaper hangs in tattered threads mould and damp abundant an upward stair a broken pipe water flows inundant. No longer fit for family life it's memories fading fast of children playing in the halls in a dim and distant past. Down verdant lanes and muddy tracks a neglected cottage fading into the undergrowth of life and memories remaining.