Promptly 4, 5 and 6

Abandoned

Abandoned

A crow has built a nest in my chimney,
a home within an abode,
in the cellar live the rats,
in the walls the mice,
and a snake raises a family under my porch.
Don’t cry for me

I am always shelter,
if not for you, then others,
though I lean and creak,
windows cracked and broken,
the forest draws near
to huddle about me
as I return to my roots.

Don’t cry for me.


Line count: 14
Free verse
For Promptly Poetry Challenge, week 30
Prompt: Write a poem from the perspective of an abandoned building.