THE WHITE HOUSE BY THE SEA

THE WHITE HOUSE BY THE SEA
by Marc Carver

We all have to find our place in the world, don’t you think?

There has to be some place where you want to be

To fit in and to want to be there.

 

But what if you never find it.

What if you search and search

Search in many things and people

And you never ever find it.

Or what if you were too unique to be part of others

Or just too strange

Too different

Or you became too different

What would happen then.

 

You could always go and live in that cave or that white house by the sea.

A woman told me she would love to do that

and paint all day but she would get too lonely

She would have to return to people.

She looked at me as if to say you understand

At one time I might have, but I am not so sure anymore.

2 thoughts on “THE WHITE HOUSE BY THE SEA

  1. Hunter Gatherer

    (the search party)

    in your wanderings
    have you wondered
    maybe the problem
    going out of your way
    is you are a place
    others look for
    but can never find

    try this on for size
    close your eyes
    stand still a moment
    imagine you are home
    stay where you are
    so the homecoming
    can find you

  2. Marc Carver manages to use language to explore our short coming complexities into a very amazing and credible reality in his poetry goes beyond reach and breaches our own consciousness.

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