House hunting

narrative verse

 

House hunting

 

Some houses seem to welcome you.

You feel at ease immediately.

It is if the walls recall

What happened here and store it all.

 

The triumphs and the tragedies

Firm memories of past events

Have been recorded faithfully

Each and every incident.

 

If you are at all sensitive

You tune into the ambience,

 the positive and negative.

Impinge somehow so you can sense.

 

That something dreadful happened here

It may be faint it may be strong

 but it affects the atmosphere.

You know at once this house is wrong

 

 

You’re certain that it will not do.

You have no doubt, no doubt at all

You know the house is telling you

 it has no choice it must recall

 

All the unpleasant memories

 which it has stored so faithfully.

For decades perhaps centuries.

You choose to leave immediately.

 

The next house which you choose to view

 affects you in a different way.

It seems prepared to welcome you.

You can decide without delay

 

It is not hard to make the choice

This is the house that you will buy

You listen to that house’s voice

because you know it cannot lie.

 

You go ahead complete the deal

prepare to move in right away

You are content because you feel

 that everything has gone your way.

 

You know that it was meant to be

It’s all that you were looking for.

This house responds positively

You need not look at any more.

 

21/07/2009

 

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