Front Door

February 9, 2012

My front door

It represents opportunity in the morning

and loneliness at night

It sticks if you don't jiggle the handle just right,

and the glass in the center has become my telescope to the outside world.

It keeps me safe from strangers
and secure from winter.

This weekend it will open up to good news when my mother walks through the door. 

Next week it will become the greeting way for a family visiting the house for a winter break. 

And then the week after that it will become, yet again, 

a representation of opportunity in the morning

and loneliness at night.