Another life

Tipped and flipped the house

Like kicking it three sixty degrees

To sell at ease and bounce

I see 

Myself hitting and kicking it down

With seeds and sprouts,

I plant them out to bleed

It through 

I bleed and bite to break the pillars

Until it hurts to instill my thoughts

And things and ideas 

In this house

Broken back and beaten hands

I see dreams in this house

Every possibility and 

Every future

Every kid with muddy shoes

To dinner plates, play 

Dates, wet clothes 

And study groups

A minivan and a extra car

Parked outside, next

To the tree we had

Planted in youth

Exiting I can almost see

The neighbors like

We had just met

And were real

I see the grandkids pull

Up next to the tree

And the extra car

That broke down years ago

I see

Them open the door to our room

And ask us how we were doing 

As we sat up in our bed watching the news

I could see a perfect life come and go

In this beautiful home that I just sold