A vacant room of dark spaces, where furniture once lay An empty lot of trash and cracked concrete Where weeds take root with hopes of becoming trees And cobwebs span for miles Worn wind chimes still glisten in sun Papers of bad handwriting fly with the wind This place left unoccupied for so much time Small lives make home in the walls, While this home settles further beneath dirt This place reminds me of our forgetfulness, our need to not rebuild As a place turns old we leave it behind, never to fix again, never to feel loved again Weeping floorboards Walls crying tears of yellow paint Roof caving in feeling hollow Abandoned places Forgotten Always forgotten