1320 - Haunted by Clichés

 

The Sunday Whirl presents twelve words for us to use in a creative writing piece.  

This weeks words are: 

tangle, surface, call, back, deep, room, kisses, edge, sense, sketches, silhouette, windswept

Haunted by Clichés

Silhouetted on a windswept hill,

Surrounded by a tangle of brambles,

The house stands clearly ill-kept

A sense of neglect, 

A dark, foreboding, shambles.

You get a sense…

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Stop a minute.

Was it always this way?

Could it once have been a home?

When did the rooms fill with dust 

And lethargic but hairy spiders?

When did the music just stop?

(Or, if not stop, at least move 

To dramatic organ chords.)

When did the laughter stop?

The love and hugs and kisses?

Did a family live here back then,

Back when it was not so dark.

Were there gardens?  A park? 

Did the trees echo with the calls 

Of birds and not bats. And children

Playing, running, sketching, giggling.

Beneath the niggling surface lies…what?

Deep, dark secrets perhaps?

But do they survive the sunrise,

When the sun edges over the horizon?

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