Tuesday, February 8, 2011

burglar in the house

when you
dream that
someone is
in the house
rummaging
through
your life
throwing
valuables
into a bag,
do you get
up and turn
the light on
and go down
to see what
can be done
to stop this,
or let them
go about their
business
knowing that
they can't
take what's
already gone.

2 comments:

lgsbowen said...

Ouch. This is so abruptly sad. It's interesting though, how it could be the end of a story, or the beginning of a story.

Stephen Chute said...

pain is the foreplay of poetry