I Went Back To My Hometown
By Jane Hyphen
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I went back to my hometown
Walked the sombre shrunken streets
Where concrete lampposts stand in line
Immune to trend and time and tide
And groaning buses carried me
To other planets far and wide
And that familiar corner
I turned alone on t-barred shoes
Which trampled forth despite my fears
Of vagrant dogs and men with sweets
Who carried children off the streets
I saw the string of hollow shops
Where once we went for everything
Now moribund and full of shame
To rot and never sing again
I saw native eyes in furrowed skin
Whose class was it that we were in?
We shone like stars
We swam in dreams
And boarded life with them on ice
Another world to me it seems
All melted now to might have beens
So many cold rectangular homes
Where people sit in dressing gowns
They warm their hands on mildewed hounds
And wait for their ship to come in
But dreams lay in the doldrums here
And good times flow on tides of beer
And am I happier than them?
We've all of us grown tired and aged
I doubt it, no, when said and done
I just live in a different cage
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Absolutely brilliant! Sad,
Absolutely brilliant! Sad, real and very observant. Going back is always strange.
Enjoyed,
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going back is always hard. It
going back is always hard. It always disappoints. Saw myself in this, Jane. Wonderful write.
Rich
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