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