Renewal

Renewal

It was a beautiful house.

For a century,

it stood resolute.

Its black and white façade,

hid its fair share of

untold secrets

conspiracy.

But also housed

joy and happiness.

It went through a war,

3 years under a rising sun

and lived to see it set.

Then a crescent moon,

five stars.

A young nation.

Then the bulldozers

came. Tore it down.

This precious time capsule.

All that heritage, history,

crumbled into dust.

They said,

It was all in the name of progress,

And Renewal.

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The coolest thing about this poem is the thing i blacked out in the middle. I actually wrote that stanza, then decided it sucked, but since the last line of the pervious stanza is "untold secrets" I highlighted it in black rather than delete the stanza XD