WRITING OBSTACLE
Submitted by lanie
Write a story, poem, or paragraph, personifying a creaky floorboard in an old house.
Remember this doesn't mean you have to write from its perspective, but give it human characteristics.
There’s Always Purpose
**_The lights go out
_****_I’m all alone
Abandoned, unfixed,
I feel like an old bone
One person comes
Then another
Nobody bothers to replace me
Nobody bothers to check on me
Food crumbs fall on me
Milk absorbs into the cracks
Dirt doesn’t escape
And the bugs eat through me for the food that is placed
I creak and break
I lost my color
My nails get loose
And yet nobody replaces me
Suddenly, no one comes through the door
No one walks on top of me
No one is talking…
Empty
I wait
And wait
And I wait
Still, the house feels empty and no one is around
_****_Light comes into view but no one is around
_****_Then darkness comes and only the crickets sound
I thought about eternity
I was going to be here forever with no one stepping on me
I can’t remember how many days have past
5? No
10, perhaps? Can’t be
I’ve lost my mind, I think
The days seemed longer until someone steps on me…and before I know it, hundreds of feet walk upon me and talk about me
And then…I feel myself slowly being pulled up
And I realize I’m being taken away
I’m finally being taken away
I’m no longer going to be brown and gross
Sure, I may not be around anymore
But that’s not the point
I’m getting out of here
_**
Weeks go by and now there is a new floor
Pure white and no longer brunette
The cracks are no longer visible
And the floorboards don’t creak
A young couple started there family
And the floor goes through the same thing
The previous floor went through
The brightness come on
I’m surrounded by light
Beautifully sacred
As lovely as a banquette
The old floor had a purpose
The new floor has a purpose
Everyone has a purpose…
What’s yours?