Family values

Family Values

We're hiding it again

and picking it back up

from where it started 15-

maybe 20 years

from where we're

now.

Trying for closure,

I'm opening up doors

that were shut

and nailed

and never sealed that well.

I'm building my room

but mostly the door these days.

Locking has worked well for half

a lifetime

only need to barricade it

half more.

I know what I'll keep it in it

from you

since I learned

from the best

how to keep it all in.

I really don't want this room

but I don't know how to live without it

you've assured me that.

With image and spite

and things half forgotten

though fully remembered

in the tempest.

And the wilding winds

whip and howl

and how my house is treating me well in the storm.

But you two have your two cities

when you should have burned your metropolis

and just laid it all down

when it was.

Because these years from now,

with these foundations you've built

hold nothing but more foundations

on the faults you have bore.

And I can't visit these rooms

or your hallways-

because unfortunately I have my own.

Because I want to shut out truth

and mistake

and fault

and hide those pesky things from you

that will deny me your love.

The walls around me

I see you there

through the window

looking in

through tinted glass.

-Matthew Koutzun