Returning

 I dreamed I came to

my parents' house

after they and I had been away

and I went inside and they

stayed outside two gray shades

by the door.

Nothing looked as it did before,

there was light coming in

where no light

needed to be,

and dirt like a landfill

all across the floor.

For a moment I pawed

at the dirt with my hand

looking for what was theirs and

what was mine,

but as the light came down and 

illuminated the grass

growing up from the dirt on the floor,

I knew I didn't want to be there

anymore,

and I followed the 

gray shades out the door.