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Do you remember us?

We slept within you for years. Decades.

We were born and read to at night

About beginnings of endings on beds beneath your windows

We listened to the clocks ticking on your wall

Absent mindedly.

Do you recall?

The timbre of our voices laughing, shouting, weeping

In your doorways

Of our feet thundering up the stairs or pacing the floorboards

On long dark nights

The music we played that gently shook your foundations

the fires we accidentally lit that could have consumed you?

But it was you, over time, who consumed us, up to the point that

you were all we imagined

could be; but

Then suddenly you are

Still there and we are not

Thinking of

The place

We have

left.