Barren Walls

When the walls are bare

Pictures suddenly appear

Platitudes unable to compare

When the walls are bare

Paint be applied

Layered with care

When the walls are bare

Tokens of commemoration displayed

Admiration to be shared

When the walls are bare

Plaques appear

Empty spaces vanish in despair

When the walls are bare

Imagination takes flight

Beyond any given sight

When the walls are bare

Monotonous in design

Ready to receive, intuitive in kind

When the walls are bare

Echoes chime

Wishes divine

When the walls are bare

To make a house a home

Words inscribed

In everyone’s tome

When the walls are bare

Stories waiting to unfold

Muses more precious than gold

Baring life into barren walls