the berg Options

[Guest_oskarthethird_*]

The Berg.


The house of my childhood was
a sepia seeping place with a back
yard full of rats breeding as fast
as the humans who lived there.

The house was near a berg that
had a chasm like a half smile,
I used to hide there when wanting
to be alone, planning my escape.

Twenty adults and children sharing
one loo, a bathroom, my mother
explained was for rich people she
used cleaned one when in service.

The berg was not a mountain only
a big rock, now dynamited to give
way to progress, crushed memories
not even the very old remembers it.