i was home

Plastic sheets cover my floor.
Empty rooms, dark rooms.
Paint buckets and brushes all about,
gloves and stains on their skin.

Empty rooms, dark rooms.
An old white covers me.
Gloves and stains on their skin.
Dirty floors and chipped walls.

An old white covers me.
Outside the children play in the field.
Dirty floors and chipped walls.
Butterflies on their skin.

Outside the children play in the field.
I am older than the children.
Butterflies on their skin.
My future outside in boxes.

I am older than the children.
Plastic sheets on my skin.
My future outside in boxes.
The lights are off.

Plastic sheets on my skin.
The old house that needs to be fixed.
The lights are off.
Stuck at the end of the road.

The old house that needs to be fixed.
Empty rooms, dark rooms.
Stuck at the end of the road.
Paint buckets and brushes all about.