The House Quotes

“The House

Because we lived our several lives
Caught up within the spells of love,
Because we alays had to run
Through the enormous yards of day
To do all that we hoped to do,
We did not hear, beneath our lives,
The old walls falling out of true,
Foundations shifting inthe dark.
When seedlings blossomed in the eaves,
When branches scratched upon the door
And rain came splashing through the halls,
We amde our minor, brief repairds,
And sang upon the crumbling stairs
And acned upon the sodden floors.
For years we lived at peace, until
The rooms themselves began to blend
With time, and empty one by one,
At which we knew, with muted hearts,
That nothing further could be done,
And so rose up, and went away,
Inheritors of breath and love,
Bound to that final black estate
No child can mend or trade away.”
― Mary Oliver, New and Selected Poems, Volume One