This Poem was Submitted By: William R. Moore Jr. On Date: 2000-09-13 16:24:48 . . . Click Here To Mail this Poem to a Friend!

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My Town

I returned to the town of my youth, it was so small. As if I had outgrown an old suit. The streets I roamed as a lad, so different, almost alien. Empty businesses with there beckoning vacancy signs. Places I knew, now under new names, new offerings. The walkways that seemed to abound with life, and undiscovered adventure. Now empty with a haunted feeling, of ghosts from the past. Walking, looking for faces from those days. But, the faces I'm looking for are smooth, unlined. Not ravaged by life's toils. Not these wrinkled vestiges of old men and women I pass. Places I called mine no more, no nostalgia, no familiar smells. Small towns, like people grow old, change, and die. It's true what they say, once you leave, you can never go back. The memories in your mind never match with the reality left by the passing of time. As the years roll by, the memories become more perfect. The bad forgotten, the good cleaned up and amplified. Till we have a picture in our heads, that probably never was,and never will be.  

Copyright © September 2000 William R. Moore Jr.

Additional Notes:
The poem was originally 4 stanzas with 37 lines. I wasn't sure if the whole thing would fit so I combined three or four lines and ran the whole thing together elimanating the stanzas.


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