Building

Brick by brick You laid it on thick Till your stone walls Cemented the door The plaster within Disguising your grin As you whispered You loved me no more Scant pieces of me Littered heaping debris All remains of the rubble and rust Are the nails hammered deep In the tears I did weep And dreams dying in smoldering dust Planned blueprints replaced By frown lines on my face Vacant, where mortar once lay In vanishing ink What's left but to think Foundation dissolved in the clay Thin peeling the paint Of the 'isn't' and 'ain't' Construction for future on hold No trespassing sign is all now to find No further cement in the mold