Melodrama demolition

 A pot of Kerry
the creek was dark
shallow though
Lizzy blushed pale hark

Patrick lost to the wind
designs for life stained and dim
the pencil outlined grandeur unreflected
The garden outlined neglect

Old houses and their hidden drama
interrupting children's play
their symbolic toys in dioramas
Restless leaks

Age and wisdom
should intertwine
become inseparable
or find separate tables to dine 

The creek behind the house
silty and untransparent
The eel dishonest
somewhere under a bank

Above it all there she stood preened
waiting for a camera yet to be seen
polishing herself to finally gleam
Her life that novela Geraldine