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OwlSA
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-11-07

Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa

0 posted 2012-10-09 11:23 AM

DOMICILIUM DEVASTATION
9 October 2012

Included in crime statistics
should be the houses
violated and robbed
of their home status
and paraded as
stark, sterile,
bustling, business premises
or worse still, empty, failing ones
that are barely breathing their icy breath,
all with living gardens raped
and replaced by dead, constricting tar
and tiling and concrete.

My body
and heart
and soul
convulse
in your pain
as I drive past you
wishing with all that is in me
that I could bring to reality again
your memories
of the families
who lived
and loved
and had their being
within your protective walls
and in your joyous, colourful, sweet-smelling gardens.

Even your heartache,
when they hated each other
and fought
good fights and bad,
and in some cases, deserted you,
would be preferable to this agony
because there was still hope
that you would find
joy and peace and contentment
with your next family
excited at their new home
and of course you grew together
and learned to love again
for better or worse . . .

but now the gut-wrenching memories
of the laughter
and happy screams
of children
who grew up
before your window eyes
now bring you only
tears of lost hope
and desolation
and I just want you to know
that I cry my guts out
with you.

How could
you be ravaged
so!

Owl

katahdin
Senior Member

since 2010-07-01

Posts 1196
ME. In the Shadow of the Mt.

1 posted 2012-10-09 07:31 PM

I could feel your anger and pain in this one.
Kat >^..^<

OwlSA
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-11-07

Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa

2 posted 2012-10-09 07:40 PM

Thank you, Kat. Yes, it is anger, pain, frustration, incredulity that some people can do this to the house which was their home, and which they must have loved at some stage, if not the whole time they live there and long after. I still have nostalgic memories for the house I lived in from 2-7 and the other one from 7-19, and sometimes drive past them. Fortunately they haven't been turned into business premises.

Owl

[This message has been edited by OwlSA (10-10-2012 06:33 AM).]

latearrival
Member Ascendant

since 2003-03-21

Posts 5499
Florida

3 posted 2012-10-13 04:08 AM

feeling this.I love old houses and it really hurts to see them go neglected and empty of the love they one held. jo

OwlSA
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-11-07

Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa

4 posted 2012-10-13 04:12 AM

Thank you, martyjo, for understanding so well.

Owl

Marchmadness
Member Rara Avis

since 2007-09-16

Posts 9271
So. El Monte, California

5 posted 2012-10-13 02:41 PM

Love this one, Diana. I so relate to it.
Ida

OwlSA
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-11-07

Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa

6 posted 2012-10-13 06:49 PM

Thank you, Ida. I am glad you do.

Owl

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