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The Past is An Ugly Wallpaper

August 20, 2018
By Justyouwait SILVER, Los Angeles, California
Justyouwait SILVER, Los Angeles, California
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Favorite Quote:
"Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic" ~ J.K Rowling


 This house remembers blood painted on its wood

                                   two hundred years ago

This house remembers how it was once

                                     a shelter and a cage

This house remembers wishing to be lost

This house remembers walls stripped down

                                       If it disappeared then anything would

This house remembers being forgotten 

This house remembers when it was loved 

                                         And when it was hated

 This house remembers being more than today



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nyposh said...
on Sep. 7 2018 at 8:14 pm
nyposh, London, Other
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natural writer !!!!

leavemebe said...
on Sep. 7 2018 at 8:10 pm
leavemebe, New York, New York
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So creative!

mymymaya said...
on Aug. 30 2018 at 2:19 pm
mymymaya, Regina, Saskatchewan
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I love the line "a shelter and a cage"

wistfulwords said...
on Aug. 30 2018 at 2:14 pm
wistfulwords, Los Angeles, California
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this is so amazingly written! love the allegory of a house used.