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The rooms were still and silent
No movement in the house
Not a creature was stirring
Not even a mouse

My father held my mother's hand
As he lead her down the stairs
The sorrow obviously weighed her down
And reflected in greying hairs

My father had to support her
Otherwise she would fall
Once so strong, now so frail
Like a crumbling canyon wall

My sister waited in the car
Her tears pattering her face like rain
Down her cheeks and across the scar
That caused her so much pain

I couldn't really remember
How the scar had come to be
But I knew it was significant
It meant a lot to me

I slipped in beside my sister
She didn't look my way
I understood how much she hurt
With having to move away

We had grown up inside those walls
So many memories
She had lived there all her life
I'd lived there since I was three

But I couldn't understand it
My emotions remained unfelt
No sorrow or happiness could I sense
My heart had ceased to melt

It just seemed to me another stage
That my life would soon pass by
In my memories the house would live on
There was no reason for me to cry

With my parents safely in the car
We moved onto the road
The scenery out the window
Unchanging the car's abode

It hit me then what my family
Reminded me of, on our ride
The silence was so amazingly thick
As if someone had died

Just as I was thinking that
My sister spoke clear and bold
The plea escaping from her lips
Chilled my blood ice-cold

"Can we go visit her grave, Mum
Once more before we leave?"
The words echoed inside my head
Surfaced from their late retrieve

Sudden, half-finished images
Flashed across my mind
My sister and I playing with dolls
When she was six and I was nine

Then we were playing monopoly
At the age that we were today
We hadn't played that game for years
But it seemed like yesterday

Then my vision was surrounded
By a flickering, golden flame
I saw my sister collapse to the floor
Calling out my name

I tried to move to save her
But the pain in my head was immense
A bookcase fell on top of me
The heat of it was intense

And then the fire that destroyed our house
Multiplied ten fold
It felt like a hell right here on Earth
Until it all went cold

Suddenly I remembered everything
How my sister got her scar
Why my family was moving
I sank lower in the car

Finally my unfelt sorrow
Fled out through my eyes
What I hadn't known before
Now, I realised

I followed my parents out of the car
Tears streaming down my face
Til they found the plot they were searching for
My final resting place

I was dead, I understood
I had died there in our house
And now no creature is stirring
Not even that well-known mouse

But I am still here, bound to live on
Though not in stars and never in song
I am the nightmare kids retell at night
While frightening others round campfire light
I am the haunting of the house that burned down
Soul roaming free, body deep under ground
I'm not of this world, though I shall never leave
I'll always be watching - unseen eyes on the breeze

Description
The rooms were still and silent
No movement in the house
Not a creature was stirring
Not even a mouse

My father held my mother's hand
As he lead her down the stairs
The sorrow obviously weighed her down
And reflected in greying hairs

My father had to support her
Otherwise she would fall
Once so strong, now so frail
Like a crumbling canyon wall

My sister waited in the car
Her tears pattering her face like rain
Down her cheeks and across the scar
That caused her so much pain

I couldn't really remember
How the scar had come to be
But I knew it was significant
It meant a lot to me

I slipped in beside my sister
She didn't look my way
I understood how much she hurt
With having to move away

We had grown up inside those walls
So many memories
She had lived there all her life
I'd lived there since I was three

But I couldn't understand it
My emotions remained unfelt
No sorrow or happiness could I sense
My heart had ceased to melt

It just seemed to me another stage
That my life would soon pass by
In my memories the house would live on
There was no reason for me to cry

With my parents safely in the car
We moved onto the road
The scenery out the window
Unchanging the car's abode

It hit me then what my family
Reminded me of, on our ride
The silence was so amazingly thick
As if someone had died

Just as I was thinking that
My sister spoke clear and bold
The plea escaping from her lips
Chilled my blood ice-cold

"Can we go visit her grave, Mum
Once more before we leave?"
The words echoed inside my head
Surfaced from their late retrieve

Sudden, half-finished images
Flashed across my mind
My sister and I playing with dolls
When she was six and I was nine

Then we were playing monopoly
At the age that we were today
We hadn't played that game for years
But it seemed like yesterday

Then my vision was surrounded
By a flickering, golden flame
I saw my sister collapse to the floor
Calling out my name

I tried to move to save her
But the pain in my head was immense
A bookcase fell on top of me
The heat of it was intense

And then the fire that destroyed our house
Multiplied ten fold
It felt like a hell right here on Earth
Until it all went cold

Suddenly I remembered everything
How my sister got her scar
Why my family was moving
I sank lower in the car

Finally my unfelt sorrow
Fled out through my eyes
What I hadn't known before
Now, I realised

I followed my parents out of the car
Tears streaming down my face
Til they found the plot they were searching for
My final resting place

I was dead, I understood
I had died there in our house
And now no creature is stirring
Not even that well-known mouse

But I am still here, bound to live on
Though not in stars and never in song
I am the nightmare kids retell at night
While frightening others round campfire light
I am the haunting of the house that burned down
Soul roaming free, body deep under ground
I'm not of this world, though I shall never leave
I'll always be watching - unseen eyes on the breeze