Four Walls To Hold Us Forever

The walls have ears

Yes they have known my fears

All of my pain

Over the years

And they have also heard

My heart sing like a morning bird

The joys and the love

Sent from heaven above

The time my daughter and I cried

When sweet loving Grampa died

And how over the years

We kept his memory alive

The walls have listened

As the sweat on my lover and I glistened

As we conceived our little one

A new life just begun

They have lived and loved with us

Even when I lost my lover's trust

And now as I close the door

To return no more

My daughter off to a distant shore

I will miss this place to my very core

A family lived here and shared

Starved, feasted, and cared

And the wall still have ears

Though as we leave they shed no tears

They remain a living part of all of us

Ashes to rainbows and dust to rust