The only help I get from my parents is
“I told you so”
Not nearly enough.
So I sweep the crumbs
Under the rugs
For the mice that live in our walls.
THEY listen but offer only scratches
in winter.
And I don’t speak in creaks.
The sagging floor in the bathroom begs me
not to step on it.
So I put a dirty towel down to muffle
it's screaming.
One day it will let go,
and I will fall through
landing in the crawl space
with no money to help it see us through
another hundred years.
Yes, our house has a birthday coming,
that centennial age.
If these walls could talk I’m sure they’d say
“I told you so” too.
Escape! Escape! They’d yell now.
I know! I know!
I want to, I will…
but…money…
It’s never there when you need it.
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Amanda Lyons
Eclectic stream of consciousness and dark surrealism. What photography does for life I do for thought, emotions, and experiences. The genres can range from romance to horror but my favorite is suspense.
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Wow, evokes everything about how tough it must’ve been. And you can feel the length of 100 years. Almost inconceivable!