Charred doors
bulge with damp,
dreams and ideas,
accumulated years,
dust and grime
of dead inhabitants,
the keys mislaid
in council drawers,
long forgotten.
Bereft of residents,
the condemned
building shifts and sighs,
and prepares for bulldozers
and wrecking balls –
no need for locks now.
Kim M. Russell, 2017
My response to Imaginary Garden with Real Toads Weekend Mini-Challenge: Doors
This weekend, Brendan has challenged us with doors that mark our coming in and going through and out of this life. Big doors, little doors, stone doors, blue doors. Portals in, passage out. He wants us to find a door and try it. Will it open or is it barred? Half-open, almost-closed? What freedom flows in as we go out? And what is the melancholy click of a door closing forever? Is there one door representative of the whole, a page which emblems the bestiary? Or is there a poem which resembles a house-shaped Advent calendar, with a door or window to peer into along every step of its way?
writing in north norfolk 
Beautiful. Old abandoned buildings haunt me too. I especially liked the ending – no need for locks now.
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Thanks for your appreciation.
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Dark. Tragic. Still, something, Marvelous! 😎😎😎🥀🥀🥀
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The Grenfell disaster is still in the news. Many of the tenants who were not killed are still homeless or living in temporary accommodation.
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My apologizes for not knowing the circumstances of this disaster. It is truly awful that so many are suffering from this misfortune of life.
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The Grenfell tower is such a disaster, still feel that there could have been more care to be done beforehand…
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That was such a tragic event. Unbelievable, really. “No need for doors now.” So sad.
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So sd in a subtle way. the tragedy of Grenfell is with all of us. the old houses, deserted fall into ruin or are bulldozed down. I wonder if those doors could speak what they would say.
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From the news stories it gives the impression that the tenants (now in temporary accommodation are still being used and unsure of their future homes.
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An awful tragedy Kim and the tower remains a sad monument to greed and failures.
And those that survived the tragedy continue to be failed…
Anna
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RIP to the victims of Grenfell tower.
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A fine but sad iteration of a dark tower’s long shadow. As Anna said, the tragedy deepens in how much a community fails to care for its own.
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A terrible tragedy Kim, and even more that tenants are homeless or living in a temporary accommodation.. sigh.. 😦
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I am fascinated by abandoned buildings. Sadly we know the history of ones that leave such tragedy, but there are some buildings that never reveal their secrets.
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