A Story Within A Chapter Part Three

It takes a minute for the music to load Have you ever heard the saying You see only What you want to see? Well guess what my friends It seems That this very thing Happened to me. I wanted my family back together. I saw only what my heart Wanted my eyes to see. I promise I will not draw this out forever As we now move into What remains to be seen. A little bit of advice From a friend . . . . NEVER give away your money If there is the slightest doubt. In the cold hard light of morning You may find . . . Your dream turned inside out! A Story Within A Chapter Part Three I met the owner of 'The Barn' Just as he had requested At the neighborhood Diner In the town of Prescott Arizona That very cold December morning I could hardly wait For Hersh to make his usual call To tell him that I rented A place for us to live I signed the lease ... Got the keys And left after a cup of coffee With a song in my heart I headed out to have The utilities turned on with The last few dolars We had left to our name Address please . . . . Why the strange look I wondered? Mrs. Gay You do know that this address Is notorious For high utility bills There has been no one live In this house For over three years Please tell me This is just an inquirey And you have not already Rented this place The song in my heart Suddenly disappeared As I got enough nerve to ask her Why the utilities were so high And how high ... High was The only heat in the place Is the electric heaters That runs along the bottom Of the logs You didn't notice them When you looked at the place They are very expensive to run In answer to your question On average in the Winter It will cost you About seven hundred dollars A month to even keep from Seeing your breath In the place There hasn't been a family That has lived out The Winter there In about ten years now It is easier to eat the lease Than pay the electric I have to charge you A higher deposit than we normally do To turn on the gas and electricity Because people are always skipping Out on us because They cannot pay their bills I am so sorry! Of course I had not noticed! I was the idiot that rented a place Before looking at it a second time In the light of day   No wonder the owner had wanted To meet me in town rather Than meeting me at the house He had to have known That if I saw it a second time I would have second thoughts Stupid! Stupid! Stupid! There had been no other Family interested in this place He only wanted a sucker And to him I looked Bright Cherry Well that was it Our money was all gone We had to have utilities And the lease was already signed I drove first to my Mother's house After stopping in at the Barn Only to find that I must have passed Her on the highway going into town I took one look at Ivan And burst into tears After collecting myself Enough to tell him What had happened He was ready to go find his gun And hunt down the landlord That he was sure had taken Advantage of me C'mon sweetie It will all be Okay I promise Lets go take a look At this place you have rented I have always wanted to see The inside of that old place It was NOT Okay! The place was filthy And when I tell you filthy ... I mean FILTHY It also seemed to be falling In around itself The upstairs that I Had not seen at all was filled With every kind of trash imaginable The room that I was thinking Could become Hersh's office Had jagged concrete poking itself Out of what was supposed to be carpeting Oh yes ... The critters!! Remember the windows? Well the little lizzards loved them There seemed to be one In each window box sunning themselves And I would eventually realize That they had no intentions of Vacating the premises Broken windows Drafts from logs that no longer Had any insulation because our friendly mice Used them as a stomping ground and a chew toy Dear Lord . . . What have I done I wonder if Kenneth Will stand between myself and his Father When he first sees this place The call That I had been so looking forward to Now became my fear Of having to come clean with Hersh About the mess I had gotten us into How was I going to be able To give him this kind of news On top of everything We had already faced And thought We could now put behind us Original by Lesa Gay aka Aspiring Angel Audio This Ole Hourse Comment On This Poem --- Vote for this poem A Story Within A Chapter Part Three Select a comment or add your own Great Work! Awesome Site! Love It! Two Thumbs Up! looking forward to more!