By hadley'shaven
Date: 2003 Dec 10
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Sold

"The house is 'For Sale'"
you said in an email...
I had to read that line
a hundred times.
We both were moving on -
leaving the past behind...
but I didn't know that
you were taking it so literally.
I put my dreams away
in an Aldo box,
with all the cards and goofy things...
things I would come across one day
and remember.
But you're packing up china
and your toothbrush...
throwing out all the things
that you don't have room for
in your new life.
I wonder what you'll do with me...
and the memories that we
made inside those four walls.
Will you take them with you,
hide them in a special place...
take them out from time to time...
and remember?
Or will you leave them behind,
like ghosts in the attic
To linger and fade?
And like the sign that will say
"sold" soon enough...
Those four walls
will belong
to someone new.
Just like your heart.