Was Once but Now Just Was

"Was Once but Now Just Was"

There in the tattered weathered halls, 

     in between those fallen desolate walls, 

right there beside the peeling paint 

     lies somewhere inside 

this dreary place  

what it was once 

but now only holds

     what was.

Leaving only just enough 

     to remember life lived through,

Forgotten corners,

empty halls,

Just enough 

     to feel the desolate pull 

          of what it once was,

Fallen floors and weeping walls,

Empty echoes of memory 

     on the tips of whispers

remembering 

that it was once

but now just was.

-Armando Torres