Memories

[Snypiuer]

I went by the house that I grew up in.

 

Wondering,

what I may see

on the streets and yards

where, as a child, I played.

 

Perhaps a little boy that, once, was me.

 

Would I feel the same warm breeze upon my face?

Smell the same fresh cut grass, soft beneath my feet?

Would I hear familiar laughter, from yesteryears?

Or see faces, left behind so long ago?

 

But,

when I looked upon the house which,

as a child was so big and grand,

I just knew there were parts of it I had never seen

I found it

 

small

 

quaint

 

Old and faded

 

Nothing as I remembered it to be.

 

As I stood there,

I felt an emptiness - deep within me

And a sudden

need

to cry.

 

It was at that moment I realized,

I had not come back for memories.

 

I was there to tell my childhood

 

goodbye.

[Silver WInd]

I really liked this, such sweet sentiment. I think we can all relate to this, that moment when we realize things are not the way we had once thought they were, when the world does not seem quite as big, and we have that bittersweet moment of knowing something is lost. Very well done.

[Guest Phoenix]

i love this

it captures the moment exactly

nicely done