It’s mine
I own it
My home
The bricks
The glass
The shit residue in the pipes
The Iron in the corrugated roof
The timber making the deck
The screws securing it to the concrete slab
Tightly screwed so it never leaves me
Like a life partner
Like love
But I will leave it
If it doesn’t burn first
Like me, it will change
Rot or disintegrate to smaller parts
The bricks will turn to sand
The glass will be carved by rising water
The iron will rust
The shit will fertilise wild flowers
The timber will be feasted on by fungi and worms
The moss will concur the concrete slab
Like love
I innocently wished for her to stay the same
I wished to never part ways with her
I wished for her to change only at my will
But she is not mine
Nor I belong to her
We share our belonging to the world
Sometimes hasten, sometimes slow
Our inevitable disintegration
Forever is now
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