WHAT SECRETS DO YOU HIDE
Old house, what secrets do you hide
From dramas that took place inside?
There were births, deaths, and marriages
Within your structured frame,
Played out as fate would have it
In life’s exciting game.
Your walls shared joys and heartaches
As befits a house of years.
You heard melodies of laughter
And the anguish of tears.
You witnessed four generations
Descend from just two names,
With privy to their heritage
And to their growing pains.
What stories you could tell me now,
If it were not a task
That intellect would ridicule,
Though still I muse and ask – –
Old house, what secrets do you hide
From dramas that took place inside?
10/15/96 Phyllis DeWitt VanVleck