Stilt house on the murky lake water
Its structure home to termites and silverfish
Through the hole in the ceiling that fell from the rain
Through years of decay
You can glean twin statue eulogies to our kind
Their eyes are eternally locked now
Their arms gently draped in a loving hold
In a gesture of comfort they knew was their last
Held onto each other fast
There the mold was cast
By the silent blast
Silk webs connect half decayed lovers
Wolf spiders trap their prey in the bridge it forms
And the larva oh the larva these burgeoning lives
From stomachs they rise they rise
Building homes in the ruins of what they don't know
They don't know who we were
They don't care who we were
These walls they have long since released theirs souls
These halls echo not with their haunting howls
Distant shells left from the days of the heavy rain
The sorrow and pain
Tardigrades care not and keep swimming along