TheBanyanTree: Poem: The Little House (Linda DeMerle)

[Tom Smith]

Powerful!


> The Little House 
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> The little house was built 
> when we were small 
> 5 rooms on a cement slab and 
> still stands looking mostly different except 
> for that one spot with my back to the kitchen looking 
> through the wrought iron arch into the living room at 
> the wall of panelling my mother?d been so proud of 
> the house now empty, the walls now bare, the people now 
> buried and a bubble of emotion burst upward in my chest 
> exploding in my throat, stinging, as I felt Home, the feeling of 
> Home bringing with it the finality of leaving it for the last time 
> Where did our life together go? 
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> LL DeMerle 
> 6-10-16