LONG GONE........ a visit to the place I used to live
...ITS NOT AS I REMEMBER IT
ITS DARK AND OH SO SMALL.
I COULD NOT SEE, SO I BECAME
DESPONDENT BY IT ALL.
THE PATHS I WALKED
WITH FRIENDS, HAD GONE,
AND WHERE WE SAT FOR HOURS,
WERE NOW DISCARDED MEMORIES
AMIDST THE WEEPING FLOWERS.
THE GOLDEN GRASS WHERE FLOWERS ONCE STOOD,
NOW TREES ALL OVERGROWN,
AND HILLSIDE NIGHTIME LAUGHTER
JUST HILLSIDES ON THEIR OWN.
NO PATHS NO PAINTED SHADOWS
NO BUSH NO MAGIC TREES,
JUST MEMORIES OF QUARRY STONES
WITHOUT THE HUMMING BEES.
NO DAYS OF GOLDEN HOURS SPENT
WE GIANTS, QUEENS AND KINGS.
WE SENTINELS WHO RULED THE WORLD
CARESSING DAISY RINGS.
I LOOKED FOR SKIES OF FIFTY FOUR
AND SMILES OF BRIGHTEST SUN,
FOR MAGIC SPELLS WHICH KEPT ME THERE,
BUT NOW NO RIVERS RUN.
THEY RUN NO COURSES THEY ONCE RAN
INTO THE SNOW WHICH FELL
ON DUSTY HILLS OUR MOUNTAIN HOMES
ON WHICH OUR TEARS ONCE FELL.
MY TONGUE NOW PARCHED, MY EYES NOW BLIND
I TASTE NOR SEE NO TRUTH,,
SO I JUST TURN AND WALK AWAY
STILL SEARCHING FOR MY YOUTH.
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