sara Etgen-Baker Poet Free verse

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UNDER CONSTRUCTION

We’re all under construction~  
beams of old longing,  
new rooms of courage,  
hallways still waiting for light.  

Some days the blueprints blur;  
the architect in us  
loses her pencil,  
forgets which dream  
was meant for which door.  

Yet the work continues:  
a quiet hammering of hope,  
the soft lift of a window  
finally opening  
to a better wind.  

We walk around ourselves  
like half-finished houses,  
touching the places  
that still need sanding,  
still need paint,  
still need forgiveness.  

And somehow~ 
in all this scaffolding,  
in all this dust~  
we remain beautiful  
in the way unfinished things are:  
full of promise,  
full of rooms  
we haven’t entered yet.

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Valsa George July 14, 2026 at 8:39 PM Yes indeed, we are unfinished structures, ever aiming to be completed. Though the work is not over, there is a beauty that lingers with an unfinished building with scope for adding new facilities , increasing the dimension, giving new colors and improving the facsimile. Great thoughts, quite insightful.