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Rotting Dream
A rat scurried across the rotting home.
Now rotting, but once flourishing.
From lively parents going from their honeymoon,
to watching the moon and stars with their children.
Growing old to the taste of crab the father had caught
to crab cages decaying as they age, untouched in decades.
Becoming older by the day, but wiser by the second.
Whilst joint pain began to become a routine.
Their children left to continue their journey,
with the plan of never coming back.
Leaving the parents to ponder in their thoughts.
Parents grow wrinkles as the shingles crack.
Wondering where their children could be,
while their pain grows stronger. Dying slowly.
As the hearts of a beloved couple come to a stop,
a rat scurried across their rotting home.
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This an ekphrastic poem on Stowe Wengenroth's House at Port Clyde