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.

Stairway To Heaven

In his quiet town


On his uphill street


In his too-old house


Where the floorboard creak


When you take his crying stairs


To his yellow room


Overflowing with memories


That clutter the ocean view


Disorganized nostalgia


Piling up from the floor


He lets me borrow a few


Every so often I do


And learn parts of him I hadn’t before


But they don’t fit in my house


On a busy street


Young, and incomplete


Where floorboards don’t yet creak


His memories don’t keep


And so I visit them instead


Rocking my chair as he fills my head


Stories I’d never heard until then


And when he shares, his room unearths


Until the ocean view returns


And as he ascends


The floorboards sing


Choirs of creaking


That lift him like wings


Through his too-old house


On his uphill street


In his quiet town


Where the memories keep


But now a path has cleared


To the window view


And he watches the rippling waves


Until he’s a memory too

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