Sunday, November 30, 2014
My heart is a cold, abandoned house.
Its windows boarded,
its books gathering dust.
I visit it from time to time
to know it's still there
in need of repair
if I can manage it.
Far away things always want attention.
But the house sits quietly in the cold
Waiting.
When I come by to dust the books
and wipe the windows
and read a few pages by a fire kindled
with forgotten scraps,
I'm warm again.
I'm home.
It would be nice, I think, if I lived here.
If I cleaned and cleaned, I could even have guests.
They could even stay a while.
I would feed them from the love grown in the garden,
baked in the kitchen, of my bright little home.
Those are dreams, I tell myself.
The task is too great. And I'm needed elsewhere.
Always.
So I cherish the warm fires of my visits
Because it may be a cold abandoned house
But it is mine.