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what is my home if home isn't home anymore whats a house full of locked memories pushed to the side in decaying cardboard boxes gathering dust with my whispered scary stories of a place called home whats a house without beating hearts? a cemetery. a house of the walking-drained I find it incredibly ironic that the place I'm living in is killing me suffocating me with echoing words and ghosts that linger despite the blinds being wide open home was temporary and then mailed and lost amongst letters to Santa and I'm sorry cards never read and bills and taxes divorce papers and trial hearings, court cases and prescriptions expired home is written on my heart in scars and on my tongue leftover from the unuttered phrases and cries only to be heard by the moonlit room of my brick walls home is a factory routine assembly line of insults and prying questions and denials that are cast on the floor crunching beneath my feet this house I am residing in is not a home how could it be when the mirrors are plastered up with this-is-what-you-must-do and unanswered questions only to be replied with excuses of uncertainty and disabling fear, swirling, fogging up my vision home is where my heart burns and my legs ache. there's no safe haven not in this house. not even behind dead bolts and lock and secrets of the mind home isn't home
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Nov 25, 2013
Nov 25, 2013 at 7:05 PM UTC
this house
what is my home if home isn't home anymore whats a house full of locked memories pushed to the side in decaying cardboard boxes gathering dust with my whispered scary stories of a place called home whats a house without beating hearts? a cemetery. a house of the walking-drained I find it incredibly ironic that the place I'm living in is killing me suffocating me with echoing words and ghosts that linger despite the blinds being wide open home was temporary and then mailed and lost amongst letters to Santa and I'm sorry cards never read and bills and taxes divorce papers and trial hearings, court cases and prescriptions expired home is written on my heart in scars and on my tongue leftover from the unuttered phrases and cries only to be heard by the moonlit room of my brick walls home is a factory routine assembly line of insults and prying questions and denials that are cast on the floor crunching beneath my feet this house I am residing in is not a home how could it be when the mirrors are plastered up with this-is-what-you-must-do and unanswered questions only to be replied with excuses of uncertainty and disabling fear, swirling, fogging up my vision home is where my heart burns and my legs ache. there's no safe haven not in this house. not even behind dead bolts and lock and secrets of the mind home isn't home
lindee
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Nov 25, 2013
Nov 25, 2013 at 7:05 PM UTC
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