Six Feet Walls

Light streams into an empty hall

The silence is odd for this place

The walls are accustomed to the laughter of children

But something has driven them away

The walls vaguely remember

A concern that had hung in the air

But concern has hovered there before,

So the walls remained unaware

Summer came and went

And the halls remained void of sound

The walls began to worry

Why weren't the children back now?

Finally, the kind man who cleaned

Came in to do his job

But at the end of the day he hung down his head

And whispered sadly to the walls

"I don't yet know when the children will return

A sickness lingers in the air-

They say if we are not six feet apart,

Our lack of caution will end in despair"

At this, the walls that had held up so many

When they had seen their unfortunate days,

Seemed to grow a bit weaker

As the memories within them replayed

The man who came to clean

Swore he heard the children's laughter

He said that the sound echoed through hallways

But darkness fell soon after

The walls of the school could not contain the fear

That they'd never feel happiness again

But they knew that the children must be kept safe

And swore to keep standing till the end