Mourning Granny's House

Don't shed too many tears
After all it's just a shell
People are to a home, what a soul is to a person
The family has been long gone
The house just sits on the corner
like an old person alone in a nursing home
neglected
empty of memories
waiting to go home
ashes to ashes
and dust to dust
the building has been caving in on itself
wishing a storm would flatten it
waiting either
for the family to come back home and live in it again
or to go home at last