In the Rubble

These shy walls keep secrets
spoken to them in the dead of night.
These shy walls have seen
the front-lines of fights.
These shy walls receive the brunt
of verbal force.
But these walls are not too shy
to deny remorse.

These shy walls are
too timid to talk back.
They're not well enough acquainted
to recognize what lacks.
These shy walls are fortified
in silence.
But these walls are not too shy
to learn self-reliance.

The walls next door
are not shy at all.
The walls next door
cause shy walls to fall.
So all the walls around
fell down; they did so
with resolute sound.
Revel in the rubble,
in awe of open space.
Revel in the moment of feeling found
in the sun rays that warm a shielded place.

c.marie