Emptiness

All alone in an empty house
The blustery day ensues
Gray clouds hover
Leaving me feeling blue

Snow drifts and waves

Bare branches wither
A freight train whistles
Icy wind just whips

So this is the culmination

Of 9 years of occupation
22 years of habitation
Of Minnesota-ization

All alone in an empty house

Where memories were made
With many firsts and many lasts
For love, it never failed

a ray of sunshine beams

offering perspective
from the warm room
as it reveals all prospective

the evergreens flash a smile

into my sunny room
there will be new memories
in a new place, a new home.

An empty house it is today

But voices of past echo
I capture them in my heart
And together, away we’ll go.