I feel love in these walls

By the things I have hanging

that makes up some story

that is me.

Little parts and pieces of other people.

The way the plaster is cold and bumpy

at night when I place my palm to it

because I have no hand to hold 


I feel these walls bleed

with trauma 

and things trapped inside

Events transpired

tears cried

lost hopes and dreams

If we ever had any

who knows


People taken

stolen

sick drunk high

abandoned

cast out

alone

but sharing these walls

together

just one degree of separation 

How could we feel so alone?