Day 20 of the November 2009 PAD Chapbook Challenge

November 24th, 2009 at 5:30 pm (Poetry)

Day 20 of the November 2009 PAD Chapbook Challenge involved writing a poem entitled “And Then (blank)” where we fill in the blank. Here’s my attempt for the day:

And Then We Walked Away

We could have talked it over
Worked through fears
Gaps in understanding
It seemed too much work
Prying at old walls
That made it possible for us
To remain aloof from the fact that
The house was falling down
Around our ears
We hadn’t sense or
Wherewithal enough to
Save ourselves and all we’d built
So we stopped talking
We turned our backs on one another
And then we walked away

M.B. – November 2009