The Poem

Houses

Houses


Under the open sky 

Above the patient earth People

build houses.

It is said

Each house

Is a drearn realized 

But sometimes people 

Are trapped in houses 

So they live

Hating each other

And they prison they

Have made

Sometimes one

Is denied entry 

To the house

One belongs to

No one knows 

Which is worse

To be shut in 

Or left out.

Then there are those 

Like the wrfinkled woman

Who lives

By selling flowers 

By 'the temple. Where is your house

I asked.

Where my children are

She said