Abandoned House
On still called The King's Road,
next to the church, across from the
library,
with weeds, over grown bushes and
some feral cats, sits an old derelict
house.
When did people leave,
why was the place forsaken,
how many generations lived here?
With no one to ask, I freely invent
a back story. Could there have been
a chicken coop and kitchen garden?
Maybe children read their primers
by the light of candles or the fire.
Mother cooked on a wood fired, black
stove. Perhaps father bought a model T
Ford to get to work. A young man may
have gone off to war, did he come back?
Possibly I don't want to know the real
history of the house, I want to create
its past.
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