Did you know
Everyday
millions of lives
That which volunteered
Never see their homes
Again
Crumbling bricks, and dusty asphalt
Unmoved curtains hang behind closed doors
Waiting for the never
Untouched they are old in their newness
Waiting for the masters of the house
To return
They do not breathe,
the wallpaper ever so slowly
Creeps down
And Down
Daring to peel
With no one there
5 years of the twenty go by
Undisturbed it waits
For the dullness to fade
We are strangers
Intruding and ransacking the shrine
Upturning the sacred air
We are searching for
clues to tell us
Who they are.
We turn it
Inside out in our
Search, ever scrambling
Looking for a photo, a memoir
To take and keep
So that we may
Remember a life,
That we never knew
Something I actually made a while ago. This was inspired by a poem collection called "Loyalty Management by Glen Downie". If you have time check it out. It is a good read with plenty of poems in which the meanings are quite hidden.