I'd entered the caboose,
The door had shrunk small,
The last time I was there,
I wasn't very tall.
All the childhood memories
that I remembered so well,
crashed to the floor boards
at the smells of old hell.
The spiders made their homes
in the falling down walls,
The rats running through
and roaming the halls.
I glanced at the stove
that never once worked,
and inside the oven
the cockroaches lurked.
I tapped on the windows
and tried the back doors,
I loosened the nails
that were holding the floors.
I picked up the pictures
that was stuck to the ground,
And hung them back on the walls
where they were once found.
I wiped away the tear
that escaped from my eye,
How the child inside of me
wanted to cry.
The memories of the old caboose
once held so dear,
Were destroyed by old age,
Year after year.
Copyright~Angie Blake~2012
The door had shrunk small,
The last time I was there,
I wasn't very tall.
All the childhood memories
that I remembered so well,
crashed to the floor boards
at the smells of old hell.
The spiders made their homes
in the falling down walls,
The rats running through
and roaming the halls.
I glanced at the stove
that never once worked,
and inside the oven
the cockroaches lurked.
I tapped on the windows
and tried the back doors,
I loosened the nails
that were holding the floors.
I picked up the pictures
that was stuck to the ground,
And hung them back on the walls
where they were once found.
I wiped away the tear
that escaped from my eye,
How the child inside of me
wanted to cry.
The memories of the old caboose
once held so dear,
Were destroyed by old age,
Year after year.
Copyright~Angie Blake~2012
The story behind this little yellow (used to be yellow) caboose is that my Grandparents bought it over from somewhere for the people whom used to work in the potato cellar to have a place to eat and sleep at night. It had a little blue club house next to it. I can never imagine anyone living in a place like that but I guess if you had to you had to. Believe me, it has seen much better years than this.....I just thought that was an interesting tidbit to add here.