The echoes of your voices...
Trapped within these walls
The arguments, conflicts
Shouting and fighting
Crying and blaming
Clouded this place in gloom and darkness

How did all this happen?
How did the aroma of home-cooked meals
Become a reeking smell of alcohol and cigar?
How did those nonstop laughing
Turn into nonstop crying?
How did a place that once brought comfort
Become a source of pain and hurt?
How did the love and patience
Turn into hatred and violence?

When did everything change?
What chapter did I miss?
How did this place we once called home Became merely just a house.

© UkimichiSia

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