Shadows

Shadows dance on the flat floor
of my house
and memories return of a house
Long gone
blown down by a storm.

Those years were dark and poor
yet happy ones
with everybody in the house
even the stray boy
and the cats.

I learned to love in that house.
to laugh at troubles
and to await later triumphs
Just as sure as the sun
finally comes out

and light washes away
the shadows after
a storm.