A Love Remembered

It stands on the bank of a slow moving stream

This relic now was my mother’s dream

It’s weathered and rotted but still it was home

Where we were loved and where we could roam

It’s been many long years rejected and worn

But once it was lived in, welcome and warm

Through years of neglect brambles have grown

On a lawn once loved and caringly mown

The days have long gone since children did roam

On this beautiful spot that they had called home

The windows now broken, doors hang by one hinge

It’s a sad winter’s day when I see all these things

There was Mother and Dad and my siblings too

Who lived in this house, when it was so new

With love and enjoyment the years quickly passed

And no one would think that it wouldn’t last

But the passing of time and life’s rocky road

Had brought on the changes and altered the load

We moved to the city many decades ago

And our lovely old home was left and let go

It stands in the shadows, so sad and forlorn

This house that once was homely and warm

Now it’s deserted, neglected and worn

Still it’s the house in which I was born