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rak03252: been thinking about this one recently...so much chaos in the world, and the world never sleeps...
already been posted on my site....if anyone knows how to make a clickable link, as opposed to copy and paste, please message me...thanks !

FOR THIS HOUSE NEVER SLEEPS(writtn so many years ago, cant recall when

a house, what images the word conjures up...

a shack, a shanty, a mansion or palace...

perhaps the world...






For This House Never Sleeps©

by rak



for this house never sleeps

the tables overflow

sometimes the well runs dry

sometimes famines grow

but this house never sleeps

nor ever locks the door

it answers how and why

and even says what for

tho this house never sleeps

it often creeps and weeps

and feels what real with stealth and steel

and responds in bounds and leaps



for this house never sleeps

what turmoil marches in

what havoc in a maverick maze

what decadence and sin

and how indeed could this house sleep

when peace and quiet knows no home

with every window cracked with grief

and stained with tears in morning glome

and this house never sleeps

entrenched in trouble steep

a universe dieing of thirst

an ocean sinking deep



for this house never sleeps

the walls forever haunted

and the bloodstains all are smeared

almost as tho they’re flaunted

and this house never sleeps

nor secrets does it tell

so full of scars and open wounds

yet wears them very well

no, this house never sleeps

perhaps, perchance a peep

it oversees o’er land and seas

and gives what no one keeps



for this house never sleeps

it couldn’t if it tried

too many souls are lost

too many young have died

and this house never sleeps

in a world where hope is lost

where all that’s left are dreams

of how to pay the cost

for this house never sleeps

the dirt it sweeps in heaps

the dust encrusted, to be entrusted

to be once more asleep.