This Poem was Submitted By: Mark D. Kilburn On Date: 2003-02-16 17:10:14 . . . Click Here To Mail this Poem to a Friend!

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OLDEN DAYS

                 Rushing recollections teem from hometown corners         Real life forever smaller than misted memories         warped by child vision of twisted perception         Laughter and regret entwined like fun and fear         A roller coaster ride of past impressions         long forgotten desires and dreams denied         Unchanged streets resurrecting wants and wishes         Or forgotten pains and pleasures         an unreal reality of some spent day         Attempts to mix the past and present, like oil and water         Not a mixing at all, more an over-lapping         or overshadowing by shadows of shame                   A slow surfacing entanglement of buried treasure         Causing certain smile and sadness, born of         unfamiliarity, rising, Lazarus-like         Appearing and disappearing with the unexpected         Predictability of some magical wizard         dancing on those days of once before                    …now never more...

Copyright © February 2003 Mark D. Kilburn


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