There’s a room
In my house
A
Secret
Room
An
Oddly shaped
Haphazardly decorated
(There was no pre-planned design)
Old
Yet
New
Room
A room
Where
Playful
Shadows
Dance with
Sourceless
Lights
And the
Untold
Contents -
Unidentifiable
Unnameable
Amorphous
Sorts of
Strange
Objects -
Appear to be
Alive
Are
Alive
Creatures
Angels
Demons
Gods
Memories
Imaginings
Futures
Fears
Hopes
Desires
Shames
Dreams
All
Unique
All
Curious
All
Delicate and
Precious and
Rare
(For their
Eternal
Incompletion
Not for any
Momentary
Pretty
Perfection)
All
Here
All
Living
In this
Immeasurably
Large
Yet
Impossibly
Small
Room
Now
The
Room
Itself
This
Sacred
Room
This
Special
Seemingly
Surreal
Room
It
Absolutely
Unquestionably
Exists
But has
No mappable
Or traceable
Location
At least
Not to
Others
Not to
Outsiders
Not to
Anyone
But
Me
And
Those
I
Choose
Only
I
Can feel
The shifting
Geography
The nebulous
Topography
Sense the
Reason
And
Rhyme
Only
I
Can
Discover
And
Rediscover
And
Enter it
At
Any
Time
In fact
Sometimes
It
Draws me
To it
Draws me
Inside it
Sans
Conscious
Mind
Sometimes
I’m
Powerless
Against its
Pull
(Less so
Now
Than in
Times gone by -
Now
I almost
Always
Choose)
So
I tell
You
All this
Because
I’d like
You
To know
That
As soon as
I saw you
The moment
I met you
When I
Could not
Help but
Hug
You
Hello
I wanted to
Show
You
I can’t
Explain
Why
I
Just
Wanted
You
To
See
I
Wanted
You
To
See
It
I
Wanted
You
To
See
Me
And to
Truly
See
Me
You need to
See
This
Room
See
It’s an
Important
Room
This
Irregular
Room
This
Extraordinary
Room
In
My
House
As
Without
This room
This
Singular
Room
The structure
The form
The style of
My house
Would not
Be
What it is
In
Or
Out
No doubt
In the past
I cannot deny
I’ve
Sometimes
Mistakenly
Let in the
Wrong types
(Not knowing
How much
It could all go
Awry)
And whilst
In hindsight
I’m totally
Fine
I can
And will
Say that
To my dismay
There’s been
Periods of
Pronounced
Disarray
Because
These types
These incongruous types
These casually dishonourable
Inglorious types
Caused
Chaos with their
Carelessness
Damage with their
Disregard
Disquiet with their
Disrespect
All of which
(As one would expect)
Added
Richness to
The room
Made it
More
Complex
But
Really
I could have been
More
Discerning
More
Selective about
Who was
Deserving
Then again
With all the
Learning
I now
Understand
A great deal
More
About
Who
I
Do
And
Don’t
Want to
Show
Maybe
Without
All that
I wouldn’t
Know
I wouldn’t
Be
Where I’m at
Now
Able
To
Articulate
Crystal clearly
How
Unequivocally
I
Want
You
To
See
Want
You
To
See
It
Want
You
To
See
Me
How
I trust
You to
Tread
Carefully
How
I know
You’ll
Explore
Kindly
How
Scary it is
And
How
Exquisitely
Beautiful
Too
So
I guess
I’m
Inviting
You
In
To
See
If you’d
Like to
Join
Me
It’s okay
If you
Don’t
Of course
But
I
Do
Invite
You
Unequivocally
Crystal clearly
And
If
You
Come in
I’ll
Make us
Cups of
Tea
And
If you
Have
Questions
I’ll answer
Honestly
Because
This room
This
Essential
Room
This
Exceptional
Room
In
My
House
Now
Naturally
Undoubtedly
Has
Room
For
You
And
Me
———
by megan drury
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