Brick and Mortar

Built from the ground up,

our lives are held together

by the brick and mortar

we acquire from the generations before us,

like knowledge from an old book.

Years pass

and we try to become more and more stable.

More bricks.

More mortar.

More layers.

More weight.

Like a house,

we furnish our lives with hobbies and people,

that act as sofas and chairs.

Schooling and jobs,

disguised as beds and TVs.

We make it our home and it becomes our safe place.

But there’s always a hole,

one less brick then there are places.

There’s always something missing.

And we all feel it.

That cold chill.

The one that makes your bones

shiver, in the night.

The breeze that keeps our shoulders up,

putting kinks in our necks

and making our spine curl up

until our body is completely stiff.

We can try to patch up the hole,

covering it with a picture,

maybe a piece of paper.

But the strong wind will always,

blow it down.

Until that one thing

comes along and fits just right.

For some of us, it might fit perfectly.

Our house becomes nice and warm,

the heat finally staying inside,

we can relax and “defrost”.

We get used to the heat,

taking it for granted.

We retire the blankets on our beds,

and walk around in shorts.

Forgetting what it was like

to sleep in the cold.

And then one day we wake up,

to the harsh realization that that one brick,

is now gone.

Again, leaving a hole in the wall for the chill to come through.

But I’ve learned,

brick and mortar are not forever.

They can deteriorate in grim conditions,

breakdown in a rainstorm.

Crack, in the dead of winter.

As warm as we are in that safe, toasty house,

we shouldn’t rely on the certainty of one brick.

We should put on more coats, sit by the fire,

until we learn to fill the hole ourselves.

Author's Note

Any notes? This is a really rough draft and I want to keep improving it. Thanks<3

Reviews

[Onlyme]

This is an excellent poem. Very motivational, cleverly done. Articulate and great use images and pictures held, within my mind's eye on reading this.

[trying_to_write]

Thank you very much, I'm glad you enjoyed it.

[Onlyme]

my pleasure be reading more from you. :) Very talented indeed.

[Jade]

When it all gets knocked down, we must rebuild and look at like nothing can stand in my way. Awesome words here.

[trying_to_write]

thank you for reading!!