One house.
A rocky foundation,
cracked from the beginning.
I saw the crack
and built anyway,
tried to raise a mansion on top of it,
pretending shaky ground
could learn how to hold weight.
I could hear the foundation splitting,
small sounds at first,
easy to explain away.
So I stayed ignorant on purpose.
Two and a half years later
the foundation gave out
and the house came crumbling down.
Can a single crack
really cause that much damage?
It can..
when it’s left to widen in silence,
when time keeps pulling it apart
inch by inch,
year by year.
Until the base fails
and everything built on top of it
goes with it.
All the memories and treasures inside
Gone.
Would it have been different
if I hadn’t ignored the crack?
Maybe.
But some answers
only exist in houses
that never fell.
Jan 29
Jan 29, 2026 at 11:19 PM UTC
One house.
A rocky foundation,
cracked from the beginning.
I saw the crack
and built anyway,
tried to raise a mansion on top of it,
pretending shaky ground
could learn how to hold weight.
I could hear the foundation splitting,
small sounds at first,
easy to explain away.
So I stayed ignorant on purpose.
Two and a half years later
the foundation gave out
and the house came crumbling down.
Can a single crack
really cause that much damage?
It can..
when it’s left to widen in silence,
when time keeps pulling it apart
inch by inch,
year by year.
Until the base fails
and everything built on top of it
goes with it.
All the memories and treasures inside
Gone.
Would it have been different
if I hadn’t ignored the crack?
Maybe.
But some answers
only exist in houses
that never fell.
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