Alexa Daskalakis

The House That Walked Away​

​You can build it perfectly. Doesn’t mean it’ll stay.

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You build a house—
every measurement perfect,
every corner clean,
every detail placed
to impress the neighbors.

And then one day
the house speaks.
It says,
“I don’t belong to you.”

And walks off
on legs it built itself.

Now you’re just the guy
standing in an empty lot,
holding blueprints
for something
that outgrew
your hands.