Vacant Box

I honestly have no idea what to do with them all

Each word resembling a gorgeous house with gardens

And stained glass windows

Reflecting sunlight into a vacant box


I could revise them and make a list of every lie you ever told

Would i mail that to you?

Or put them in a clean colored brown box

Labeled “words on paper”


Because that's all they were

It seemed like you wrote them for you

Each letter a trophy in your case


On your porch lies a box of hundreds of letters

And words

That you put on paper

A box that will be opened to find

Absolutely nothing but a vacant box

A not so beautiful house

 

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AdamKeithMcElwainPoetry's picture

Nice

"And stained glass windows

Reflecting sunlight into a vacant box"


I love this. The mental image these lines gave me was morbidly beautiful. Nice work.

emella45's picture

Thank you! 

Thank you! 

allets's picture

Return To Sender

 

Address forgotten. "...put them in a clean colored brown box Labeled "words on paper" Astonshing image! Enjoyed this one. - slc

 


 

 

emella45's picture

 Thanks so much, it means a

Smile Thanks so much, it means a lot 

georgeschaefer's picture

Hold on to them and lord them

Hold on to them and lord them over the fool til kingdom come.