Verse Pt IV

This one is titled "Down From The Hospital On The Hill"

The light from your window
Casts a broken line
Down the stairs
That jagged finger
Pointing
Toward the cellar door.

A faded photograph
Rests quietly
On the floor -
Tattered edge
Like a child’s hand
Curled up
Gesturing for help

The air is filled
With dust
Like a million
Fireflies
In the light
Against the stairs.

This house
Vacant some 10 years -
Paint cracking
Small chips fallen
On the hardwood floor -
Seems alone
Heartbroken
Longing for the footfalls
Of children
Mothers
The sounds of their laughter

Outside in the grass
Some two feet tall
The wind threatens
To carry the house
Off
Into another time
To lay beside you
In that faded photograph