There’s a safe in my basement floor
I have never seen it before
His stolen goods
Our youth
Our years
His love
There’s a safe in my basement floor
Behind the scary crawl space door
With the mold
And the crickets
And the dirt
And the chill
There is a safe in my basement floor
It has a steel impenetrable core
Like his heart
And his silence
Now my heart too
Emptied
There is a safe in my basement floor
I don’t know what was in it before
Was it cash
Was it porn
It was lies
It was our future
There is a safe in my basement floor
Could there be a better metaphor
For who he was
I couldn’t crack
In 27 years
His long con
Theres a safe in our basement floor
A Savings Bank for his whore
She won the lottery
A penthouse
Sex clubs
Latex is expensive
There is a safe in our basement Floor
What am I crying for?
My child
Fifteen
Too vulnerable
To be robbed
Safe in our basement floor
Cemented in forevermore
Left behind
Suburban myth
An empty tomb
Here lies a family
There is a safe in that basement floor
A house I don’t live in anymore
Haunted
By the living
And the secrets
He kept