dream's end

in front of me
a door,
broken down by insects
and time.

at the doorstep,
a washed-out envelope
with a bill
from the electric company.

around me,
a silence
that only the absence of children
could bring.

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dream's end by Dimitrios Kokkinos is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License