The house is
strangely quiet now,
The sounds of
living gone...
No one to share
my laughter with,
Nights endless
and days long.
The kids all
grown, and moved away,
Have lives
like I once had...
A noisy
household in retrospect,
Wasn't all
that bad.
The one thing
that they did not take,
But left behind
for me...
A house too big
for only one,
An emptiness I see.
My spouse was
called some time ago,
To leave for his
new home...
It seems unfair
that it is I,
Who spends my
time alone.
What bothers me
most of all,
My home now like
a cell,
Always
wearing loneliness,
Although it
fits us well.
Yet I
have tasks that I can do,
That soothe my
troubled mind...
As I
sort through and then smile
at,
Memories left behind.
©
11/14/09 Loree (Mason) O'Neil
Midi playing is: Too
Old
