This is the house

With or without hope
We always return home
Jaroslav Seifert

This is the house of lost joys
The house where all things come together

This is the house
Where the humming of the sun is heard
Through the cracks of the door

This is the house
Where deepest night
Drips from the wall

This is the house of those we forget each day
Where all things come together.

Rafael Ayala Paez (Zaraza, Guarico, April 24, 1988). Poet and writer. His poems have been published in literary magazines nationally and worldwide.  He published Bocados de Silencio and The Lightness of Matter. Some of his poems have been translated into German, English, French and Hebrew.