Under One Roof Poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar

Where is the love and honesty once kept?
What has happened to the truthfulness...
We promised we'd keep with us,
When we met.

Where is the devotion and concern we had?
What has happened to that loyalty,
We shared and made us glad.

Where is the tenderness.
Smothered now with screams.
Where is that togetherness...
Meant to stay to fulfill our dreams.

And where are those chats,
We could not stop having then.
And now when I come home to you...
Not one word do you hear.
Or from me do you listen to!

And both of us accuse each other,
Of losing interest!
Yet...
Here we are,
Living under one roof.
To lose something...
That has clearly gone!
Without sitting together to admit...
There is an emptiness felt,
We wish to dismiss.

And both of us accuse each other,
Of losing interest!
Yet...
Here we are,
Living under one roof.
Doing our best...
To protect the secretness,
Of our lonely seperateness!