Diligence

 The house that

is no more

had people who are no more

but parts of the house

and the people remain

and the diligence is

retaining the parts

that were alive

while the parts that were 

a building are removed

and this is more painstaking

and fraught than

you want to know. 

Especially when in your heart 

you want the parts that were living 

to be alive. 

And I don't know what therapy

fixes it when

no 

one 

is.