Anticipation ravished
my soul as my pounding
heart coalesced with
the knock on the wooden
door. Screams bellowed,
clashing with the hollow
cries from inside the house -
my house, the one I’ve built
around my anguish.
My House © 2024 Rena Aliston. All rights reserved.
This poem was written for a prompt on Medium by Chelsea Marie. Prompt 1: knock - For an extra challenge, try to work these two words or ideas into your poem:
anticipation | pounding